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Dole is betting on that sense of history to move an army of Bonnie Curzios--women who might not otherwise vote in a primary--to lift her to victory over Texas Governor George W. Bush. But the former American Red Cross president and two-time Cabinet Secretary will have to offer more than personality and symbolism if she hopes to turn inchoate interest into real support. Curzio and others like her want to know the candidate's positions on the issues, but Dole didn't provide many answers in her canned, 25-min. Des Moines speech...
...Cohen foresees construction of artificial limbs that would allow a human to lift heavy objects the way an ant does. He has already received impassioned letters from disabled patients offering to test the first bionic limbs. But such equipment remains years from reality, because the polymer strips and gels being used for muscles are far too pliant to lift heavy weights. Until a new material is found, says Calvert, "you've only got to look at your arm to realize how far we have...
...Venezuela, are in much greater need of cash than even the Saudis. "I don't like to project what is going to happen," Saudi oil czar Naimi told TIME last week. "But I believe we will be successful in coming to an agreement to reduce surplus inventory and to lift the price." If not, the princes can expect a few more Abdullahgrams...
...Neither rookie played in Harvard's regular season finale, a 9-3 blowout at 13th-place Yale. Botterill also missed the two previous games, against Boston College and at No. 8 Princeton, but Ruggiero provided the game-winning goal to lift the Crimson over the Tigers in overtime...
...closer to the edge of the envelope than we ever were and are looking for something to test them in a different way," says Ralph Walton Jr., chairman of Crested Butte Mountain Resort, which has added a wilderness experience to its mix. Crested Butte has built a new lift to provide access to 550 acres of steep, ungroomed runs called Extreme Limits. It also offers guided snowshoe tours and telemark classes. Says Walton: "We made the decision that this was a niche that we were going to win over as fast as we could...