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...pencils down. The questions, which percolated through e-mail chains over the summer, are not meant to prepare you for the hot seat on "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" Rather, they're drawn from an oral exam given to seventh- and eighth-graders in Saline County, Kansas, back in 1895. Students who mastered the five-hour exercise gained admission to high school. And if enough of the kids performed well overall in their studies, their teachers could win a pay raise of 25? a week...
...tribes, speaking mutually unintelligible languages, thinly scattered across the vast hot skin of Australia. They lived by hunting and gathering. These seminomads were, even by the lowest standards of Africa or the Americas, almost incredibly low tech. They had fire, sticks and stones, and little else. Yet their traditional oral culture is of great antiquity; their structure of myth is remarkably coherent and continuous across millenniums, not just centuries; and, as anyone can see who visits some of the sacred cave sites scattered across northwestern Australia, their traditions of rock-painting - animals and fish of every kind, spirit figures...
...have to convince customers that the tire problems are limited to just a few models and that the Firestone name can still be trusted. But first they will have to contend with scenes of crumpled SUVs and shredded tires and with accident victims like Dr. Rene Brignoni, a Florida oral surgeon who survived an Explorer rollover with a broken nose and severe lacerations last April when, he alleges, the tread suddenly peeled away from a Firestone tire. Brignoni is suing Firestone, charging that the company behaved irresponsibly. Says he: "I feel very fortunate to be alive, and I feel extremely...
...getting oral sex in the Oval Office? Doesn't bother me," said Raymond Mora, a 26-year-old Hispanic who was doing well enough in life to be in the latter stages of a bar-hop that encompassed most of California and Nevada. "How's the country running? Fine, right? That's all I care about." This was a guy whose admitted only impression of the Gore convention was that Rage Against the Machine had been ill-served by the L.A. police, and he had absolutely no problem with a Gore presidency. "Under Clinton, the economy's great. Might...
...getting oral sex in the Oval Office? Doesn't bother me," said Raymond Mora, a 26-year-old Hispanic who was doing well enough in life to be in the latter stages of a bar-hop that encompassed most of California and Nevada. "How's the country running? Fine, right? That's all I care about." This was a guy whose admitted only impression of the Gore convention was that Rage Against the Machine had been ill-served by the L.A. police, and he had absolutely no problem with a Gore presidency. "Under Clinton, the economy's great. Might...