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...Gandhi, widow of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, led Congress to victory in last year?s regional elections, which were fought over such bread-and-butter issues as the country?s onion shortage. ?By projecting Sonia as a Christian and implying that there?s a threat to Hindus from conversions, they?re trying to create an issue with which to beat Congress,? says Rahman. Still, that?s unlikely to impress voters unless there?s an onion in every...
Then, last year, Sugiyama and Cabrera decided to tackle the Pyramid of the Moon. Like most Mesoamerican pyramids, this one was built like an onion. Explains Cowgill: "They would build a small pyramid, then build a larger one over it and then build a third one after that." As a result, the interior is almost solid dirt and rubble, with no distinct passageways. This makes the going slow and expensive. It took the archaeologists 3 1/2 months to reach the burial chamber, which is about 90 ft. inside the pyramid...
...decade-old Onion began as an alternative college-town paper and still carries the usual movie reviews and futon advertisements. Editor Scott Dikkers, 33, worked as a cartoonist during the publication's first year (he did three strips in three styles under three names, just so nobody would think the Onion had just one cartoonist), then bought the paper after a year from its founders. "For a long time we were kind of a Weekly World News parody combined with your usual sophomoric college-humor publication," says Dikkers. The moment of epiphany came in 1995, when, as Dikkers now says...
...with its mix of the banal and the absurd (U.S. STUDENTS LEAD WORLD IN TV JINGLE RECALL; GRECIAN FORMULA FALLS INTO NON-GRECIAN HANDS; HEALTH INSURANCE: ARE YOU PAYING ENOUGH?). It's also one you can expect to hear more of in the future. While the Onion has a circulation of 160,000 (it can be found on newsstands in Milwaukee, Wis., Chicago and Denver, as well as in Madison) and claims 200,000 readers on the Internet www.theonion.com) it will be sold in Borders and Barnes & Noble bookstores nationwide starting this week. Early next year Crown will publish...
...used to think that all we really needed to be a big success was to hook up with somebody in show business who knew what he was doing," he says. "Well, they don't really know what they're doing." Sounds like another hot news item for the Onion: HUMOR EDITOR DISCOVERS VAPIDITY IN HOLLYWOOD...