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It’s been a long road back, but The Twelve Pack finally got there last weekend, posting a 7-5 mark to even out this season’s record at 37-37.Enough about that, though.It’s time now to give massive props to Sir Steve. The Ole Ball Coach went into Knoxville and continued his complete dominance over Philip Fulmer and the Vols, running his record against Tennessee to 10-5. More importantly, the victory left Spurrier just a win away from becoming bowl eligible with games at Arkansas and at home versus Florida...
...occupies (malls, hospitals, fancy hotels). When Robert appraises his son’s professional success, saying, “That’s quite an American accomplishment,” his words have just enough edge to give the film a hint of satire. Despite the comic moments (Sir Michael Caine’s description of a “camel toe” may be worth the price of admission) and the mild social commentary, one finds it difficult to really care about the plight of Spritz and his family. Perhaps it’s because...
...Facing similar youth bulges in their populations, and a paucity of jobs, South Pacific leaders - notably Papua New Guinea's Sir Michael Somare and Fiji's Laisenia Qarase - have been lobbying the region's wealthy states to open up their labor markets. Issuing short-term visas for unskilled workers is not a new idea. But with Australia and New Zealand seeking closer engagement in the Pacific, many of the region's respected voices feel a guest-worker scheme is ripe for a trial. "We have a lot of people looking for work, and they are not lazy," says Rick...
DIED. RICHARD SMALLEY, 62, nanotechnology pioneer who shared a Nobel Prize with fellow chemists Robert Curl and Sir Harold Kroto for discovering a highly stable, soccer-ball-shaped carbon molecule, a cylindrical version of which--100,000 times thinner than a human hair--can conduct electricity; of cancer; in Houston. The playful professor--among the honors listed on his curriculum vitae is Rice University Homecoming Queen--dubbed the molecule buckminsterfullerene because it resembled the geodesic domes of architect Buckminster Fuller...
DIED. MICHAEL WARD, 80, British surgeon and mountain climber whose expertise in both areas made possible the historic first ascent of Mount Everest in 1953; in West Sussex, England. Although medical duties kept Ward from the summit, Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay conquered it using Ward's expertise in high-altitude medicine and, more important, the route he devised to the summit using an archival map he had unearthed in Nepal...