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Talk about some huge shoes to fill. The city of Los Angeles lost one of its biggest celebrities--7 ft. 1 in., 340 lbs., with size-22 sneakers--when the L.A. Lakers traded their indomitable center, SHAQUILLE O'NEAL, to the Miami Heat last week. After the Lakers' surprising loss to the Detroit Pistons in the NBA finals last month and coach Phil Jackson's subsequent departure, Shaq packed his bags and said he wanted to "play for a team that's willing to win." (As opposed to all those fools who think the point is to lose...
Twenty-two feet long and weighing in at 4,700 lbs. unfueled, Cassini is an extraterrestrial truck bristling with a dozen instruments. It is protected by Kapton blankets that shield it from micrometeorite hits and warm it against the deep freeze of space. Inside, it operates at room temperature...
...next big thing out of California is 18 in. high, weighs about 50 lbs. and is capable of traveling up to 70 m.p.h. Meet the pocket bike, a scaled-down motorcycle that is selling faster than low-carb hot cakes across the Golden State--and causing nightmares for traffic police...
Researchers in St. Louis, Mo., and Rome, Italy, conducted extensive tests on 15 obese women before and three months after they underwent liposuction. "We removed 20 to 22 lbs. of fat from each patient," says Dr. Samuel Klein, director of the Center for Human Nutrition at Washington University in St. Louis. That's twice as much fat as is usually removed. The women were instructed not to diet or exercise more until the experiment was over. All reported that they felt better and could move more easily after surgery. But with respect to their metabolic risk factors, Klein says...
...particular difficulty throughout the year was fielding wrestlers at 157 and 165 lbs., which rotated between freshmen Bobby Latessa and Jonathan Spiker, sophomore J.T. Young and seniors Brandon Kauffman and Jantzen. But there was only so much Jantzen—who spent most of the year at 149 lbs.—could do; he was the only Crimson wrestler to garner points during every dual meet...