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...Right Stuff. Tom Wolfe named the phenomenon when describing how the nation's best test pilots follow a curious training regimen. Rather than eat right and sleep properly, the fighter jocks stay up all night drinking and rat-racing down desert highways in their sportscars...
...caller named stores in Houston and Orlando, where he said he placed capsules laced with cyanide or rat poison. Investigators initially found capsules spiked with sugar and cornstarch. The adulteration was easily detected. The man had crudely cut into the plastic blisters encasing the capsules. Said SmithKline's James Russo: "We're not talking about someone with exquisite skill for hiding what he is doing...
...first the company stopped short of a recall, telling retailers only to stop selling the drugs until further notice and warning consumers against using any of the capsules purchased after March 15. At week's end, however, laboratory tests found nonlethal doses of warfarin, an anticoagulant used in rat poison, in two Contac and three Teldrin capsules. SmithKline was frightened into acting. Said Company President Henry Wendt: "Between his claims about cyanide and the findings of warfarin, we feel we didn't have a choice...
Later that afternoon, while he is waiting for his room at the Flamingo Hilton, Donald Persson deposits three quarters into a slot machine, one of the largest bets of his life, and pulls the lever. The wheels fall into place, and the coins start firing rat-a-tat into the metal change bucket. Persson takes a seat, drops three more quarters and contemplates just what he has been missing for the past 57 years. By the time his wife Myrna disconnects him from the machine and persuades him to visit a cashier, he is up $153. He hardly needs...
...crowded field. Some 40,000 Grenadians waiting for their first words from the President of the United States swayed to the lyrics of the country's most popular ballad. The song, which recounts the landing of U.S. troops on the tiny Caribbean island, mimics the drone of helicopters, the "rat-tat-tat" of machine guns and the boom of big guns as it pays exuberant tribute to the island's liberator, "Uncle Reagan...