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...magazine, "If I played a practice game with ((Boris Becker)) when the women's final was on, we'd have more people watching us." Volleyed back Tennis Ace Pam Shriver: "He seems like someone who is a little narrow-minded and maybe a little dumb." Advantage Shriver, mate...
Traffic is thick enough to defeat just about anything except perhaps the mating instinct. In fact, some have found that choked freeways can enhance the possibilities of finding a mate. Ruth Guillou, an enterprising Huntington Beach, Calif., widow, was idling along when she saw a "charming-looking man in a yellow Cadillac. I couldn't get him out of my mind. There should have been a way for me to make contact with him." Thus was born the Freeway Singles Club, a mail-forwarding service whose participants pay $35 for a numbered decal that identifies them as members. The group...
...study in chutzpah when performing extemporaneously, Biden continues to generate needless friction with careless remarks. Asked last week whether he would consider Jesse Jackson as a running mate, Biden could have ducked the question. Instead, he said that Jackson lacks experience in elective office. The next day he backed off, saying the discussion was "silly" because Jackson is far ahead of him in polls...
...year cicadas (pronounced suh-kay-duhs) is back. During the next few weeks and continuing through early July, the Eastern U.S. from Georgia to New York and as far west as Illinois will become infested with these mysterious insects, which emerge from the ground every 17 years to mate and die. This year, as in previous appearances, their numbers are likely to reach into the millions to the acre. The greatest concentrations are expected in the suburbs of Baltimore, Washington, Philadelphia and Cincinnati, where the days will be filled with a cacophony of ticks and buzzes that will...
...most states, allow murder convictions against defendants who took part in a felony in which a killing occurred, even if they did not carry out the killing themselves. The new case involved Ricky Tison and his brother Raymond, who as teenagers in 1977 helped their father and his cell mate to escape from an Arizona prison. Soon after, they commandeered a car, and the two convicts killed all four family members who had been in it, including a two-year-old. After fleeing a shoot-out with police, the father died of exposure in the desert. The sons were eventually...