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...sustain the hope that boxing is an industry that can contain its own pollutants. But driving Tyson out of the ring for good at a time when boxing is desperately short of star power would be very bad for business. Even a diminished Tyson remains an invincible money magnet. The fight with Holyfield brought in a record 1.8 million viewer buys and $90 million in pay-per-view revenue for the cable channel Showtime. The previous record holder? Tyson's previous fight with Holyfield...
...phone interview Tuesday, Dr. Samella W. Junior-Spence, now-retired principal of the Martin Luther King Jr. Magnet School in Nashville, spoke of Stephens' "high moral character," nothing that he was a marvelous student, a caring sibling and a devoted friend...
...acres of ranchland have been sold for development in the past two years; of the 75,000 prime acres that remain, 17,500 are for sale. Development's pace is fastest at the northern head of the valley, where the funky ski town of Crested Butte is a money magnet. Opulent homes necklace its ridges, and a million visitors pass through each year. Though still rural, the county has a choice: either it finds a way to shape the sprawl, channeling development into existing growth areas and preserving open space, or it loses its high-lonesome charm and becomes, like...
...meantime, the drug has become a magnet for bad press--most of it unwarranted, if not downright false. In February, after the FDA met behind closed doors with officials from Wyeth-Ayerst to iron out details of the follow-up study, critics cried "cover-up"--as if the FDA never granted drug companies private meetings in order to protect trade secrets. In April the Associated Press reported that a 38-year-old, 120-lb. woman had died after taking Redux for just a few days. It turned out that she weighed 220 lbs. and was in fact murdered--a turn...
...story didn't end there. Just days later, principal Dorothy Shepherd learned that Pizza Hut had won a $170,000 contract to deliver pizzas twice a week to 21 Kansas City high and junior high schools, including Paseo, a $34 million state-of-the-art magnet school that serves a 70% minority student body. "I was outraged," says Shepherd. "I respect their wanting to protect their drivers. But how could it be unsafe one day but safe enough for them when it came to that contract? We didn't move the school." Her reaction was echoed by the Kansas City...