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...DeFrancesco was modest about his heroicwork and that of his fellow police officers. "Ifany other officer was up there I would expect themto do the same thing for my kids...
...Dada classic Four Saints hangs onto the fringe of the repertoire by virtue of its pigeons-on-the-grass-alas text by Stein and Thomson's proto- minimalist, oompah-pah score. Even so modest a renown is likely to elude Lord Byron, just given a handsome first recording by conductor James Bolle leading the Monadnock Festival Orchestra and a cast of mostly unknowns...
Although Sacrison describes himself as an amateur paleontologist who has never traveled outside his own time zone, he is too modest. In a sense, he has spent more time in the Cretaceous period, 65 million years ago, than many professionals. Since he found his first dinosaur bone, a triceratops vertebra, at age 8, he has scoured the landscape looking for more artifacts of the distant past. Counting his latest discovery, he has found two of the world's 14 known skeletons of Tyrannosaurus rex. Sacrison helped excavate the first last year, only a quarter-mile from his latest find...
...Hollywood-Silicon Valley connection goes back to the early 1980s, when movie companies and video-game makers found it mutually convenient to license cartoon and film characters (usually for a modest 5% to 10% of net sales) for use in video games. At one point Atari had deals lined up to make video games out of Peanuts, Mickey Mouse and the Muppets. Then in 1982 Atari licensed E.T. for $23 million and proceeded to turn it into one of the worst video games ever made. The resulting disaster, known in the industry as "the crash of 1984," brought Atari into...
...commitments and severe economic troubles of their own. But of all areas of the world, the Middle East is the one where aid could make the biggest difference. Populations are small: 5 million Israelis; 1.8 million Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Economies are on a similarly modest scale. Sums that would vanish without effect in Russia could make an enormous difference here. What matters most is not whether foreign economic aid to the Middle East produces the biggest bang for the buck, but whether it brings the most peace for the penny...