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Roger seems willing to be exploited as long as he gets paid for it. As they were secretly negotiating the deal with Atlantic, Clinton and his manager, Norman ("Butch") Stone, allowed the crew from Esquire to take them to Planet Hollywood, a touristy restaurant in Manhattan, where the two Arkansans ordered steak and a vast amount of appetizers (the remnants of which they took away in a doggy bag). Roger let patrons take pictures, and he was treated by the staff to free caps, T shirts and a private tour. "I think he and Butch thought it was the funniest...
...what you get" (dark-matter aficionados are inordinately fond of acronyms). WYSIWYG types like to assume that dark matter is most likely made up of the same basic building blocks as ordinary, visible matter: protons, neutrons and electrons. One possibility is that dark matter is nothing more exotic than planet-like objects that are bigger than Jupiter but too small to shine like the sun. Such objects, known as MACHOs (massive compact halo objects), may be orbiting our own Milky Way like swarms of giant bees...
...guess is Walsh knows more about the Iran-contra scandal than any other person on this planet, yet he has had to watch Oliver North, John Poindexter and numerous other criminals like them go free...
...might get a strong argument from America's Protestant creationists, who still insist that life on earth was created about 10,000 years ago and that a Flood engulfed the entire planet. In recent decades, creationists promoted their own brand of science and even persuaded a few state legislatures to decree that schools give Fundamentalist theories equal time with Darwin's evolution. Those laws were eventually struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court...
WHAT'S THE WORLD COMING TO? FIRST, ASTROPHYSIcists said comets killed the dinosaurs. Then they implicated asteroids in numerous other mass extinctions throughout the earth's history, setting the stage for the awful news in October that the comet Swift-Tuttle might crash into the planet in the year...