Word: mike
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...BADMINTON Mike Beres, Mt. Pleasant, Ont. Philippe Bourret, Montreal Denyse Julien, Calgary, Alta. Helen Nichol, Burlington, Ont. Jody Patrick, Calgary, Alta. Charmaine Reid, Calgary, Alta. Anna Rice, Vancouver...
...poised over a piece of rock the size of two bricks. What's inside the rock will make Creaser's day and remind the rest of the party that, for all the wonders this place has yielded, it has much more to give. "Work at Riversleigh," says team leader Mike Archer, "will go on forever...
...standing among local Israelis. Has party leader Mark Latham alienated the influential Jewish community? Whittaker's asked to get a journalist to check it out. What about a response to the federal government's suggestion that it might have to ship radioactive waste offshore because South Australian premier Mike Rann opposes plans for a dump there? "Rann deserves a pasting," is the verdict. It's decided to put more journalists onto the possible outbreak of citrus disease in Queensland. "Could be the biggest disaster in Australian rural history," says Mitchell. But the best contender for the splash is shaping...
...know how I'd do on the Senate floor if I got into a confrontation with someone I didn't appreciate, or maybe didn't appreciate me." MIKE DITKA, former coach of the Chicago Bears, on why he turned down an offer from Illinois Republicans to run for the U.S. Senate...
...fall, in southern Iraq, a Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) official approached Maurice (Termite) Watkins, 47, at breakfast. Watkins, a professional boxer turned pest-control contractor, had spent the previous six months killing scorpions and camelback spiders around U.S. military bases and reconstruction sites in Iraq. The official, regional coordinator Mike Gfoeller, had heard that Watkins could fight more than mosquitoes. "What are the odds of you getting an Iraqi boxer qualified for the Olympics?" Gfoeller asked. Termite spoke from the heart. "About one in a million...