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...fight for the title was preceded by a press conference during which the Lampoon's 160-pound champion and his trainer outshouted Foreman...
Lampoon members threw "George Foreman for President" buttons into the crowd, and cheered the 280-pound candidate...
...cause disaster on a biblical scale. Sexually mature at the age of five months, a single pregnant, hermaphroditic snail can, if it escapes to the wild, give rise to as many as 16 quadrillion descendants in five years. Armed with 80,000 rasping teeth and weighing up to a pound, each of these offspring can wade through an entire head of lettuce at one sitting. "It eats anything," says University of Michigan zoologist J.B. Burch. House paint. Dead Rats. Beer. Describing an infestation in Ceylon early in this century, a British explorer wrote, "The huge snails were to be seen...
Alternatives exist, and more would be developed if animals weren't so plentiful and cheap. A few years after pound seizure (the release of animals from pounds for laboratory experiments) had been banned in Massachusetts, the demand for dogs by Harvard faculty had dropped by 50 percent...
...beyond the sheer volume of users these days, the MAC suffers other problems as well. For example, equipment frequently breaks or, worse yet, disappears--no doubt the handiwork if ingenious thieves who think they can accomplish more with a single 25-pound dumbbell in their room than with the entire...