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...players. And Anna Kournikova lost in the first round. It was the 10th first-round defeat this year for Kournikova, who found yet another loss so galling that when a BBC interviewer suggested that her confidence must be low she threw a tantrum. Kournikova even lost out in the pin-up stakes to Slovakia's statuesque Daniela Hantuchova, recently voted the world's sexiest player in a poll of fans. In 1913 Wimbledon was accorded the title World's Championships on Grass. Though it is the only major championship still played on grass, the tournament remains the one that every...
...ASIMO was designed with that in mind, says Hirose. The robot is light (52 kilos), lest it stumble and pin a user to the floor, triggering a product-liability lawsuit. Yet it's tall enough to reach light switches and doorknobs or to clear the table. Its mini-cam "eyes" are level with those of a sitting adult for easy communication, and its humanlike form is meant to break down our inhibitions toward sharing a home with a talking toaster...
...Tuesdays, 10 p.m.), he brutalized a suspect to find a kidnapped girl, then murdered a fellow Los Angeles cop who was about to rat on him and his antigang Strike Team for corruption. By this week's season finale, he has become the most memorable, divisive and hard-to-pin-down character of the TV season--and his series, a lesson in the difference between network and cable TV making...
...HEAD OF A PIN...
...news among most priests. For decades, gay clergy have held annual retreats, met in local support groups and kept in touch through an underground national newsletter. Estimates of the percentage of gay priests range from 15% to more than 50%. While the correct figure is impossible to pin down, it seems safe to say the proportion is higher than that of gay men in the male population at large...