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When University of Kentucky epidemiologist David Snowdon makes an important discovery, he doesn't break the news at a scientific meeting or even in a peer-reviewed journal. First he tells the School Sisters of Notre Dame, a group of Roman Catholic nuns who have given their bodies--and, after death, their brains--to help Snowdon study the slow mental wasting known as Alzheimer's disease...
...colossal. So what do those big bucks buy? Lavish spectacle, a Dynasty-style version of Cleopatra's romances with Julius Caesar and Marc Antony, and just about zero chemistry between Leonor Varela's Cleopatra and Billy Zane's Antony. Zane (Titanic) makes a stalwart Roman general (and so does Timothy Dalton as Caesar), but pretty, pouty Varela lacks utterly the "infinite variety" that Shakespeare attributed to history's most famous vamp...
Among other leaders, the delegation includedrepresentatives from the Roman CatholicArchdiocese of Boston, the Islamic Center of NewEngland, area synagogues and churches, and theChinese Evangelical Church...
Mallory's leathery skin gleamed so brightly that climber Dave Hahn likened it to "a Greek or Roman marble statue." Mallory's face was the only part of his body unexposed. He had a broken right arm, trauma to his shoulder and fractures of both leg bones just above the top of his single surviving hobnail boot. Even so, the climbers were awed by the physical specimen before them. "We each noticed the muscular arms of the climber," says Hahn. "After all these years, George Mallory still cut an impressive figure...
...DIED. ROMAN HRUSKA, 94, former conservative Senator from Nebraska; in Omaha. A longtime ranking minority member of the Judiciary Committee before retiring in 1976, Hruska relentlessly opposed gun control and led the fight to restore the death penalty for various federal crimes. Among his most memorable battles: defending Harrold Carswell, a Nixon Supreme Court nominee accused by Democrats of being mediocre. "Even if he were mediocre, there are a lot of mediocre judges and people and lawyers," said Hruska. "They are entitled to a little representation, aren't they...