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Arturo Coruzzo leads two lives. In his workaday world, the 33-year-old Verona bank clerk tries to be the picture of decorum. There was a weekend this month, however, when he went just a bit crazy. Two Saturdays ago, he stood halfway up a Swiss ski slope yelling himself hoarse with cries of ``Forza, Alberto!'' As the object of his cheers cannonaded down the run, Corruzo dashed to the finish line and jumped the fence. Too late. His hero, rushed by a mob of other brandy-fueled fanatics, ran for protection. Was a blurred whoosh-past by Alberto Tomba...
...trim Joaquin Navarro continue with him. It took another three hours to reach the cross. The Pope was dressed in hiking togs -- one of those rare moments when he has been seen publicly in mufti. On the way up, they passed a group of German hikers descending the slope. John Paul greeted the group briefly in German and walked on. When the tourists were about 30 yards down the mountain, Navarro heard one of the women shriek, "Gott im Himmel! It was the Pope...
First they ban banners on Holworthy. Next, they remove pictures of naked men from Dudley House, just hours before Silly Sally the Clown is to arrive. Watch the slippery slope...
Under the way the CUE-Crimson relationship currently works, it can theoretically take any interesting or controversial parts of its deliberations off the record. The overused but still relevant "slippery slope" argument applies here--today it's grade inflation, who knows what it'll be tomorrow. The committee's policy smacks of censorship...
...important as this news was to volcano experts and the people of Anchorage, just 80 miles from Mount Spurr, the volcano study was perhaps the least noteworthy part of the robot's mission. Despite the final slipup, which toppled Dante and left it stranded on the steep mountain slope, the 10-day trek went a long way toward proving the potential of a technology that could let humans explore a wide range of sites too hazardous to visit in person -- other volcanoes, deep caves, the barren wastes of Antarctica, the ocean floor and even the surfaces of the moon...