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Sweetest Revenge for a Naysayer Marvin Roffman, a gambling-industry analyst, was fired by his spineless firm, Janney Montgomery Scott, after Donald Trump threatened to sue the firm because Roffman predicted the demise of the high roller's $1 billion Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City. Just eight months later, the Taj agreed to file for bankruptcy protection...
Greatest Aerobic Rush Nearly 1 million Americans discovered the high-speed thrill of "blading." Riding high on roller skates with a single line of polyurethane wheels rather than the old double-row configuration, enthusiasts wove through traffic at speeds of up to 20 m.p.h., terrifying pedestrians and drivers alike...
...best two years," confirms Barbara. "But then I always think what I'm doing is best. I haven't had too many bad ones, you know." In fact, the First Lady has had trying times: she has ridden the political roller coaster with her husband, seen divorce and financial trouble touch her children, been slowed by illness. Yet she smothers it all with what one close friend describes as her "big optimism...
...have gotten to this situation because the leadership of the health- sciences research community has addressed the problems on a short-term, piecemeal basis, essentially looking at the problem only as long as the one- year budget cycle of Congress. That style of leadership has led to a virtual roller coaster of boom and bust. We are now suffering from a vacuum in national leadership for science in general and health science in particular...
...alligator, to parking-lot markers (a yellow toucan, a pink flamingo, etc.), to a windswept-looking Hurricane Food Court, complete with wind sounds and swirling banners. Shoppers stroll under palmetto trees down four "main streets" with themes ranging from Caribbean to Art Deco. And, for family amusement, miniature golf, roller skating and a movie theater are in the works...