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...leading bookmaker William Hill says the event has sparked renewed interest in the possibility of extraterrestrial life. The company has slashed odds on finding aliens from 500-1 to 100-1. Sunday's successful landing on the Martian surface by a U.S. rover makes the odds even better. See: Rush Hour on Mars...
...Mailer, who would write the keynote piece for the magazine?s 50th anniversary issue, was no feminist; he would tangle loudly and instructively with them over the years. But he knew the drill: that staring at women for an erotic rush demeans and dehumanizes them, robs them of the equality they deserve. On the Dick Cavett Show in the 70s, feminist Susan Brownmiller told Hefner his magazine exploited sex. To which he replied, ?Playboy exploits sex like Sports Illustrated exploits sports!? (Yep: It?s Sex Illustrated...
Though Whiteside says he thrives on the rush of being the eyes of the platoon, he frets about the threats he can't see. When the Tomb Raiders roll out for a night patrol six hours later, Whiteside is tenser than before, gripping his gun tightly as the platoon careers through dark, empty alleys running with sewage. "I hate it when the lights go out," he says, staring down a street that is barely the width of a humvee. "You don't know what's going to happen. If they sat down and planned it, they could block this road...
...wait until the very last minute this holiday season, however, expect to get socked with some hefty delivery fees. Most merchants are no longer willing to lose money on shipping just to snare new customers. Williams-Sonoma, for example, tacks on $15 to rush a $20 stainless-steel frying pan ordered on the afternoon of Dec. 23--that's on top of the standard $6.50 shipping charge for that item...
...spread of the disease. Maybe they should have taken their own prescription. The latest SARS patient, a medical researcher and lieutenant colonel in Taiwan's army surnamed Chan, apparently contracted the disease in a SARS research lab on Dec. 6. Authorities in Taiwan believe Chan was in a rush to catch a plane to Singapore for a medical conference and hurriedly cleaned up a spill in his lab from a leaky waste bag. Chan told investigators that he thought the spill was safe because it was several days old and therefore any virus in it should have died. Not exactly...