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...concerned, as UCLA coaching legend John Wooden is, that dunking will cause the death of the pure, passing-oriented game that women's basketball is known for? You shouldn't be. Dunking doesn't equal selfishness. The Starzz barely missed the playoffs last year, and lost two games down the stretch by three or fewer points. Would taking more really high-percentage shots really have been all that selfish...
...Mobile, Ala., Johnson says, he was inspired by the legend of George Washington Carver. Johnson was born to a large family in the segregated South; his father worked as a civilian driver at the local Air Force base, and his homemaker mother sometimes worked in a laundry or as a nurse's aide. In the summer, Johnson's parents would pick cotton on his grandfather's farm. The family lived on $126 a month, but they were not so poor as others in the neighborhood...
ANSWER FELLA, Esquire's advice guru: "A boil, like an angry mob of Floridians, is an ugly sight, but nothing that Rutherford B. Hayes--whose postelection carbuncles were legend--couldn't overcome. Forget antibiotics. Trust the people's wisdom: Apply slices of raw bacon wrapped in gauze to the boil, and no matter what, avoid hand recounts...
...sitting in the audience fuming. In real life Tiger Woods just wrapped up one of the greatest seasons in the history of golf, a season in which he won so often and by so much that he nearly picked up a couple of electoral votes in Florida. In The Legend of Bagger Vance, one of the more embarrassing movies in recent history, Will Smith plays a magical black caddie who helps Matt Damon win a golf tournament and the heart of Charlize Theron. In 1930s Georgia, no less. You'd think Smith would have used his powers...
...each other (particularly without scissors) is unclear. Another theory, advanced by the New Hacker's Dictionary, is that chad stems from the "Chadless" paper punch, thought to be named after its inventor, that keeps the little pieces off the floor--ergo the pieces must be chad. "There is a legend that the word was originally acronymic," the dictionary adds, "standing for Card Hole Aggregate Debris, but this has all the earmarks of a backronym...