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...Women's Atlantic Coast Championships (ACCs), held at the Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn., Harvard fell victim to rough currents and finished a disappointing sixth place...
Every time Vanessa Moody found out she was pregnant--and she found out five times in six years--she wanted to do right by her baby. So she told her tricks she'd give them oral sex only. "I really hoped nobody would have rough sex with me that would hurt the baby," she says. That sort of logic kept Moody working the mean streets and alleys of Chicago's South Side for 13 years...
...year-old singer is a man of mysteries, both tiny and large. He goes by Seal professionally, but his real name is Sealhenry Olumide Samuel. In person he is tall, sleekly muscular and imposingly handsome, with a clean-shaven head and sloped, piercing eyes; his cheeks, however, are rough and pocked, the result of a long-ago lupus episode (something else he prefers not to discuss). Nor is he always comfortable talking about his parents. (His mother was Nigerian and his father Brazilian; both are dead.) Seal was born in London and grew up poor...
...equation is not a very practical tool for performing actual calculations because its factors include numbers like the percentage of planets in their stars' habitable zones that contain all of the environmental conditions necessary to life. Any estimates of these numbers that we make range from extremely rough approximations to wild guesses. Aczel, however, does not even attempt to give values for all of the variables in his calculation. Instead, he gives rough approximations for two of the variables in the equation and then lumps the remaining terms together in an arbitrarily chosen, "extremely remote," one in a trillion probability...
...Though those may be (hopefully) unapt words for Minnesotans anticipating Jesse "The Mind" Ventura's new term as governor of the Land of Ten Thousand Lakes (and by the way, his real name is James Janos), it would seem to behoove them to get ready for something. Rough-and-tumble populism? Muscular, mustachioed libertarianism? Ross Perot in tights? Let's take a look at the Ventura canon...