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...after striking out last spring, Harvard connected for a grand slam last Thursday when Duke's Henry Louis Gates, Jr., accepted a lifetime post at the University. This was no two-bit pickup--Gates is widely considered the top Afro-Am scholar the nation has to offer. If anyone can breathe new life into the dwindling department, Gates...
...with blond hair, Chase does not seem the type to win a Legion of Merit from Ms. magazine. "On weekends he's wearing his cowboy hat and driving his pickup," says Betsy's brother John, who is their next-door neighbor in Clear Lake, just south of Houston's city limits. "You'd equate that kind of Texan with a male chauvinist." Wrong. Watson describes her husband as "extremely self-confident and self-assured. And my success does not jeopardize his own masculinity or feelings of worth." But that power balance shifts the moment they walk through the front door...
...they were introduced in 1985, Letterman's nightly Top 10 lists have been his show's most reliable laugh getters, a shrewd mix of topical satire and frat-house nuttiness. Recycled in book form, they are just as funny to read. Here again are Jim Bakker's Top 10 Pickup Lines ("Pray here often?"; "Your eyes are the same color as my leisure suit"), Princess Diana's Top 10 Complaints about Prince Charles (always calls Pizza Hut before we've decided on topping we want; that phony British accent), and the Top 10 Least Popular Attractions at Disney World (Oprah...
...cars and trucks in the U.S. run on natural gas, and automakers have shown increasing interest in the technology. Last week General Motors and Tecogen Inc. of Waltham, Mass., unveiled a natural- gas-powered school bus. The GMC truck division plans to build 1,000 natural-gas-fired pickup trucks to be marketed in Texas, California and Colorado early next year...
Shouts of excitement greet the arrival of two Jordanian entrepreneurs driving a pickup truck loaded with ice. A brick-size chunk goes for one Jordanian dinar (about $1.50), and the sellers profit handsomely -- though not as well as they might. Many of the refugees are penniless, forced to leave their life savings behind in Kuwaiti bank accounts long since looted by Iraqi troops...