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...Shot, the Stratosphere's piece de resistance, you are harnessed into one of 16 seats facing in all four directions and mounted on the building's ultimate tower. Without warning you are shot up, as if sprung from a killer rubber band, 160 ft. into the sky at 45 m.p.h. and four Gs. And then, dear Lord!, you slam back down at negative gravity, your body pleading to soar through the restraints. Up and down you go a few more times in decreasing extremes. The whole thing, which lasts 31 sec., is a great, bearable kick. It's like experiencing...
...Mississippi, however, the road-warrior reverend found his path strewn with obstacles. Few states have embraced gambling so wholeheartedly. Since 1992, when the first riverboat casino floated down the Mississippi River to Tunica, the desperately poor county that Jesse Jackson once called "America's Ethiopia," 28 casinos have sprung up from the Tennessee border to the Gulf Coast. These garish palaces employ 27,300 people and last year put $189 million into state and local coffers. "Hey, look, Tom Grey, gaming is working here in Mississippi!" declares host Rip Daniels, welcoming Grey to his talk show on WJZD, Gulfport...
...Army fears that 10,000 M-55s may be leaking internally right now. The 1,500 rockets with external leaks have been put into strong steel tubes. And when those containers have sprung leaks, the Army has put them into even bigger containers. This process, an Army report dryly notes, "cannot continue indefinitely." The Army recently launched a $4.5 million study to nail down a more precise deadline for the rockets' safe storage. It hopes to have an answer later this year...
...FROM THE BEGINNING OF this trial, I have believed that we were watching Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill all over again. To me this murder is a gender crime, and I have been fascinated that everyone--the media, the public, law-enforcement personnel--has fallen into the defense-sprung trap of looking at it as a racial episode. In the process, of course, it has become one. But as we wait for the verdict, I feel exactly the way I did that weekend back in 1991 when Anita Hill testified: we absolutely knew who was telling the truth...
Hundreds of web- and E-zines have sprung up in recent months, covering everything from big- city nightlife (Total New York) to punk rock (Intrrr Nrrrd). FaT GiRL caters to lesbians whose girth is apolitical as well as an aesthetic choice. Snuff It purports to be a "Church of Euthanasia" publication. Its motto: "Save the Earth; Kill Yourself...