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Someone asked, "What about air management?" Doug replied, "We quit having colds in the winter when we moved into this house. It is the moisture from the plants. Everybody else gets all dried out. Our air management consists of opening the windows for ten minutes on a warm winter day if the humidity gets too high...
...disc jockey at a Harlem club break into a rap. Simmons had already begun promoting parties during his spare time, and he sensed the commercial potential in the deejay's chants. "People thought of it as a gimmick, but I knew it wasn't," he says. He eventually quit school to promote rap full time. In 1983 he and a friend named Rick Rubin, a student at New York University, pooled their savings and started the Def (rap for cool) Jam (music) label. They signed a distribution deal with CBS Records two years later. (Rubin left in 1988 over differences...
...nervous for the first few miles. I wasn't sure if I would be able to finish or how long it might take. I would be embarrassed to quit, but the ride west at sixty miles per hour on the Mass Pike had seemed very, very long. The morning air had contained hints of a March chill, and I had dressed accordingly, but by mile three I had tied my sweater around my waist and was carrying my down coat...
...pilots. He also says North asked him to donate a Piper airplane to the contras and then report the plane as stolen so that insurance would cover his loss. Later that year, Reed and his wife Janis received a $33,000 insurance payment for the Piper. He says he quit the contra effort in August 1987 after he learned that it involved drug running. For that, he claims, the government sought revenge...
...RATE THEY'RE FLEEING CAPITOL HILL, LAWmakers may make the term-limits movement obsolete. Already, 47 members have said they will quit the House at the end of this term, and 11 have been thrown out in primary elections; the exodus is the largest since 49 House members left voluntarily in 1978. A few say they are leaving because recent scandals have driven public regard for Congress to a new low. Throw in the effects of redistricting, and up to one- third of the 435 House members may be newcomers in November...