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...class, it's like attending church on a Sunday morning," Ghartey-Tagoe says. "I was sitting in the front row going 'mm-hmmmm' and 'amen' to everything [Fletcher University] Professor [Cornel] West '74 was saying...
Young Robert had turned around only a heartbeat before the shooting began. It looked as if his father had lurched forward, but he was not sure. He ran to his parents' bedroom, tearing open drawers. "Where's Daddy's gun? Where's Daddy's gun?" he yelled. The 9-mm handgun was missing. Robert opened the closet where Phyllis and Derwin kept shotguns and rifles inherited from her father and his grandfather, who had been hunters. Robert found the rifles but no ammunition. "Why are you even looking for guns?" his mother asked him, still thinking the shooting was next...
...gunman, and possibly somebody else was driving a getaway car parked a street away. They had been waiting as the cold December rain fell hard and mist dimmed a streetlamp and the Christmas lights draping the eaves of the Browns' home. The shooter had pumped six 9-mm bullets into Brown's slumping body, then had walked around the cars in the driveway, aiming his semiautomatic, Uzi-like pistol closer and firing again from the other side. Eleven of the 17 shots fired hit Brown. It took all of 10 seconds. The assailant was determined to kill...
...secret: an unashamed sense of show biz. Says A.P.'s executive vice president/general manager, W. Clark Bunting: "We're not just a 1500-mm camera talking about the alpha male and the alpha female." Animal Planet combines a sense of humor and emotion with an irreverent brand of extreme naturalism that crosses the WWF (World Wildlife Fund) with the WWF (World Wrestling Federation). There's Ian ("Shark") Gordon, who gets jaw-snappingly close to great whites. There's Jeff Corwin, who, facing angry elephants in Borneo, explains the need to stand still: "What you do privately in your underpants...
...remember, even if you don't have to worry about this now, you probably will eventually. Half of U.S. adults have a blood pressure of at least 120/80 mm Hg, which is at the high end of what's considered ideal--and blood pressure usually increases with age. "We can't put everyone on drug therapy," says Dr. Frank Sacks of the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and the chairman of the DASH-sodium study. But everyone can try to do with a dash less salt...