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...that could have been stiff upper lip. Even as colleagues on the ground rehearsed procedures that cosmonauts Vasily Tsibliyev and Alexander Lazutkin must undertake to fix their troubled station, Russian commentators candidly admitted that the damaged part of the station could be a Pandora's box. Rammed by another Progress on June 25, Mir's Spektr science module suffered a foot-long tear in one of its sail-like solar panels and an inch-wide breach in its hull, depressurizing the interior. To keep the rest of Mir's precious atmosphere from spilling as well, the crew hurriedly sealed...
Well, if the kind of judicial reasoning that applies to tobacco companies also applied to stop-sign cases, then the three witless young vandals would have faced a stiff fine and been forced to downsize the cowboy and put the camel out to pasture. But there would be no talk about prison terms; in fact, Congress would be considering legislation to bar any such vengefulness on the part of the courts. If the youths were fortunate enough to be a tobacco company, they might even find themselves rewarded for their crime with immunity from future class-action suits brought...
These exterminators, however, face some stiff opposition. In recent years, prairie dogs have enlisted formidable allies. Scientists call prairie dogs a "keystone" of the Great Plains ecosystem because their dens serve as motels for many other mammals, insects and even birds. Researchers are beginning to discover how their barks and squeaks constitute one of the most complex languages in the animal kingdom. Animal-rights advocates defend the winsome fur balls: they are, in the words of a Hutchinson member of the Doris Day Animal League, "delightful to watch, even if they are of the rodent form...
...contrast to the high hopes for this fight. When Holyfield, then a 7-to-1 underdog, upset Tyson last November, he revitalized heavyweight boxing and guaranteed himself and Tyson a huge payday for the rematch--$35 million for the champ, $30 million for the challenger--not to mention a stiff pay-per-view price of $49.95 for home viewers. Promoter Don King called it "the biggest event of all time," and while it may not have been that, it was a classic rematch between the good Holyfield, who wore the biblical inscription PHIL. 4: 13 on his trunks...
...YORK: Who says Dr. Jack Kevorkian's a stiff? The controversial physician, known for his advocacy of doctor-assisted suicide, has just released a compact disc of original jazz tunes entitled "A Very Still Life." Listing for $18.95, the aptly titled CD contains 12 tracks in which Dr. Death can be heard jamming on the flute and organ with the background assistance of the Morpheus Quintet. "The thing I hope the world will say about me years from now is that I was a physician who helped relieve human suffering," Kevorkian writes in the CD's liner notes. "Music...