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...Juan Antonio Samaranch - may have found in Australia the perfect country for the Olympic Games. When it comes to sport, Australia seems like a benign, sunnier and drug-free East Germany. Somewhat isolated and with a relatively small population, Australians love their sports like a devoted Commie loved his Marx...
...American?" A woman with sable hair smoothed back from her pointed, little face peered at me accusingly from above. Somewhat taken aback by her piercing eyes and aggressive stance, I remained silent, pressed against the back of my plastic chair. As if reaching an irrevocable decision, she sighed and said again, "You are an American...
...consumers, we have the right to know what we are eating. As creatures of the earth, we have the right to protect the natural gene pool. Despite what your chart indicated, we Canadians are not "somewhat in favor of GM foods." Our elected government officials may have been swayed by agribusiness money, but surveys have shown that the majority of the population is for the labeling of GM foods that are sold to the consumer. JOHANNE DION Richelieu...
...paralyzed actor-director and tenacious champion of spinal-cord research; with a broken left thigh bone that snapped during routine physical therapy; in Los Angeles. Because of his paralysis, Reeve has bones that are especially brittle. His dream of walking by his 50th birthday, he admitted in June, is somewhat illusory: "2002 was a thing I put forward as a way to motivate the scientists...
Included in Iris' memories, somewhat abruptly, are passages from a novel called The Blind Assassin, set in the 1930s, in which a wealthy woman carries on a clandestine affair with a man hiding out from the law, apparently because of his actions as a labor organizer. To keep her attention (when they aren't having sex), he invents and tells aloud a science-fiction tale about a planet called Zycron, populated by tyrannical Snilfards and subjugated Ygnirods. "I suppose this is your Bolshevism coming out," the woman teases...