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Enter Payne, a graduate of Arizona’s Mesa Community College and now a junior in Dunster House. Payne, a 6’3, 220-pound defensive end, has been tabbed by coaches and teammates as someone who can contribute right away to a defensive line heavily affected by graduation, even if he doesn’t start...
...powering through,” senior John Traugott said, referring to the vehicular nickname Seidel’s former 195-pound stature earned him amongst his teammates...
Twenty miles southwest of Scottsbluff, Jim Wyatt, 41, who has already stripped his fields of everything but baked, brown grass, is hoping he can find enough scrub weed in neighbors' pastures to feed his cattle. Others have sold entire herds for pennies a pound. "If you can't feed them, you can't keep them," says Wyatt. Dry-land farmers, who either can't afford the expensive irrigation water or live too far out to be able to use it, are in even worse shape...
...looking beyond cars as well. "If you could wave a magic wand and make every car fuel efficient, it wouldn't solve all our problems," says Dean Kamen, founder of DEKA Research in Manchester, N.H. "It is still very energy intensive to move a 2,000- or 3,000-pound machine." His solution: the Segway, the recently unveiled high-end scooter that goes up to 13 m.p.h., is powered by an electric motor and runs on just a nickel's worth of electricity a day. The batteries today are standard nickel- metal hydride and nickel-cadmium, but the scooters could...
Here are two folks who spent eight years being attacked by midgets and now have fat contracts to write memoirs in which they could pound on their enemies and throw gravel at them, and will they? Will it be Payback Time? No, it will not be. They will say that those eight years of persecution only deepened their faith and drew them closer as a couple and made them realize how terribly lucky they really...