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Because the Ivy League title rests on the outcome of The Game, the amount of betting is higher than it has been in at least 10 years, according to Dave Piermont, a writer for the betting tip sheet, "The Sports Reporter...
...compare them with reality," explains Princeton Climatologist Syukuro Manabe. "How well do they reproduce the movement of the jet stream, the geographical and seasonal distribution of rainfall and temperature? You can also reproduce climate changes from the past. Eighteen thousand years ago, there was a massive continental ice sheet. Given the conditions that we know existed, can we reproduce accurately the distribution of sea-surface temperatures then? The answer is, We can do this very well. It gives you some confidence." Large-scale phenomena can be modeled more easily than those affecting small areas. So when it comes...
Neuharth did not help the company's balance sheet last month when he staged lavish fifth-anniversary parties in six cities, including a star-studded Los Angeles bash with Actress Angie Dickinson and Author Jackie Collins. Next project: a weekday half-hour television version of USA Today, scheduled to debut next fall...
...with similar victories, Robertson's local organizers were able to attract Iowans who had not been politically involved. A year ago, a crude instruction sheet called the "Christian Political Action List" advised new activists to "hide your strengths" and "pretend to be interested" in general party business. Much of the missionary work was done in evangelical churches, particularly those with Pentecostal practices.* Typical was Debi Nuhn, a teacher who had come 250 miles with her husband Tom and other members of the Word of Life Christian Church. Like Robertson, she said, members of her charismatic congregation were "born-again...
...attacks, which began in 1983, were all on elderly women, five white and one black. By throwing a sheet over the head of each victim, the culprit had remained unseen. Yet hair samples and sketchy impressions of some witnesses indicated that the rapist was black. It also appeared likely that he was a local: he always seemed to know which women could be found alone in houses unprotected even by a dog. All of which made residents especially edgy, and made Police Chief Christopher Kelly particularly eager to solve the case...