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...August, Defense Department officials realized that the remaining $7.1 million would be lost if it was not spent soon. A House committee went along with their plan to use the money for maintenance. Said Weiss: "We have a more efficient system in the U.S. to deal with stray pets than we have for homeless human beings...
...know for a fact that it gave me extra strength. It's easier for me to work out well now." She is one of ten children raised in Los Angeles, the only daughter of three to follow her brother Robert to foot racing. He was killed by a stray bullet while running on a high school track in 1974. "I was close to Robert," she said...
...Lewis loves to run and jump when it is hot. The hotter it is, the better he feels. On this humid Tuesday afternoon, as Lewis prepares for his final workout, the stands at the Santa Monica track are empty save for the security guards who only have eyes for stray spectators trying to pass through the chain-link fence. A female hurdler sprints along one side of the track. Lewis, his coach Tom Tellez, and Carl's friend Kirk Baptiste, a University of Houston sophomore who will run the 200 meter, set up shop on the opposite side. "Carl...
Near the dusty cattle town of Liberia in Costa Rica, members of the Civil Guard are listlessly chasing a stray hummingbird through their armory. "Actually, most of these guns are for the birds," jokes Colonel José Ramón Montero, a rice farmer who prefers T shirts to camouflage and diligently observes banker's hours. "These M-1s could have seen service at Normandy, and most of these weapons would be more valuable in Hollywood." His company's mission, however, is no scriptwriter's flight of fancy: his men are serving as a first line...
There is also Victory, the Jacksons' spanking-new album, a stereophonic silver lining in search of and, indeed, in need of, a few stray clouds. Earnest, upbeat and insistently optimistic, Victory was shipped out by Epic Records in almost unprecedented numbers (2 million copies hit American record retail outlets last week). The first single, State of Shock, a politely raunchy dance number in which Michael can be heard ducting with Jackson-for-aday Mick Jagger, is doing nicely. But this is very much an album in need of what the record business calls tour support. The most interesting song...