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NASA may have the "vomit comet" to brace astronauts for space flight. But if you're looking for a real stomach-turning ride, try Wall Street. In a seven-week trip, the Dow Jones industrial average plunged nearly 700 points from mid-March to mid-April, only to suddenly turn full-throttle upward. In one of the dizziest weeks of the year, the Dow closed up 332.22 points to a near record...
Astronauts aren't the only ones who can have a bumpy ride on re-entry. JERRY SPRINGER, who was a popular local news anchor and mayor of Cincinnati before wading into the quagmire of daily talk shows, is attempting to return to news. He has been asked by the NBC affiliate in Chicago to do commentary. But to the two news anchors, sharing a show with the unabashed chronicler of America's most tawdry domestic dramas was like being asked to drink battery acid. On Thursday night, Carol Marin resigned on the air. "This isn't about one television newscast...
Good citizen or bad Don Juan? Eddie Murphy was stopped by sheriff's deputies in L.A. at 4:45 a.m. with a transsexual prostitute in his car. The prostitute was arrested; the comedian wasn't. Murphy says the "beautiful Hawaiian-looking woman" asked him for a ride. "I was just concerned about her safety...
...mother. Their two-story brick home is comfortably middle class and better maintained than most of the other houses on the street. In the backyard are bright-colored swings and slides for their numerous children. The neighbors point out that the Nixon kids always wear safety helmets when they ride by on their new bicycles. And Dennis and Lorie Nixon pray for their kids. They pray all the time...
...wouldn't be worth discussing if it weren't for a single undismissible fact: the same exact songs pop up at Harvard parties with a regularity that is frightening. I can't remember the last party I was at where I wasn't invited to Ride the Train. And every time I go out on the weekend, I can be almost sure that I'll be reminded (and reminded and reminded) that This is My Night, Dancing Free Till the Morning Light...