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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only 40% of the team ever get degrees. "It's an unrealistic expectation," says Diana Costello, head academic tutor for the team. If subjected to the same grueling physical workouts, she adds, even "the finest of students would have a difficult time." Costello tries to warn the players to look beyond basketball and takes delight in those who make academic progress...
...Stupid Picture, 1982, could have been thought heroic in scale. In fact, there is less scale in such work than brute size. To see what the scale of an image can mean in terms of real address to the eye, one must go a few rooms back and look, once more, at early De Chirico and Sironi...
...cash. To qualify, all he had to do was buy some vitamins. Without a moment's hesitation, Searles agreed to order an eight- month supply for $395. But when his prize of a fur coat arrived 3 1/2 months later, Searles recalls, "my wife took one look at it and was absolutely disgusted. It was imported all right, and it was fur, but it was rabbit fur, probably made from scraps off the floor. If you took a handful of it, you could hear it crinkle...
Some scam artists pitch legitimate-sounding items over the phone at plausible prices, then send products that bear little resemblance to the descriptions. "Car phones," for example, turn out to be cheap telephones in the shape of a car. One "sewing machine" looks more like a stapler, and the "piano" fits in the palm of your hand. "Home stereo entertainment systems" turn out to be tiny radios, and "satellite dishes" look suspiciously like Chinese woks...
...basketball fans across the country fix their eyes on the NCAA tournament this week, TIME shows how the national obsession with winning and moneymaking is turning big-time college sports into an academic scandal that for too many players leads down a one-way path to broken dreams. -- A look at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, a basketball powerhouse in the heart of America's gambling capital...