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...hottest, the richest, the worst. We look at a Mars bar with new respect knowing that the Mars family is No. 3 in the billionaire rankings. Where would we be if someone did not locate us on a scale of the 250 most desirable or pestilential cities? The symptoms quiz -- Are you overdue for a heart attack? Are you an ordinary boozehound or a helpless alcoholic? -- is a variant of listomania. And what should attract more attention than a list of the symptoms displayed by an unfaithful spouse...
...according to the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. Thus New Jersey's efforts to cope with the crisis are being watched elsewhere. Last June, inspired by Donato's sentence, a panel of three judges in Westchester County, N.Y., subjected three anti-Semitic vandals to a Holocaust quiz. In preparation, the young men, ages 18 to 20, were required to read a chapter from James Michener's Poland that describes a Nazi death camp...
...race for the commuter flight from Atlanta to Charlotte, N.C., reaching the airport with minutes to spare. A surprisingly long line of passengers still waits ahead of you. A security agent pulls you aside to quiz you about your shoulder bag and suitcase: "Did you pack them yourself? Have they been in your possession since then? Why are you flying to Charlotte? Are you carrying any gifts? Did anybody give you a package to take to someone else...
...unhappiness of people who have every reason to be happy is always fascinating, and the story of former Miss America Bess Myerson is riveting. Quiz-show star, New York City's Commissioner of Cultural Affairs, walker of Mayor Ed Koch, candidate for U.S. Senate, she fell from grace with a thud. Although the ending of the Bess Mess is known -- she was acquitted of bribery charges stemming from her affair with a married man -- it is a tribute to Shana Alexander's storytelling that the reader believes at points along the way that Myerson and those around her could...
...take a sports quiz. When do kickoffs happen in football? Answer: when the two-minute TV commercial break is over. Why are World Series games played on frigid October nights and on the West Coast in late-afternoon twilight? So viewers at home can watch in prime time. Why do basketball play-offs now include 16 of the N.B.A.'s 27 teams and last well into June, when the heat in old arenas like the Boston Garden can be stifling? Right again: so TV can have more potentially high-rated games. And if television didn't exactly create showboating antics...