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, Symbols tell tales, and politicians manipulate them shamelessly. When Bush addressed the nation last week -- "in the morning, because that's when he's best," says a White House aide -- the credenza behind his Oval Office desk was loaded with family portraits; the extended Bush family as a metaphor for...
Bareknuckle competition is the credo of American business, but James and Linda Newton may have taken things too far. In a lawsuit filed last week, Procter & Gamble accuses the Parsons, Kans., couple of promoting their independent Amway distributorship by linking P&G to satanism. The Newtons allegedly circulated a flyer...
The revolting tales hardly reflect what one expects of athletes -- or of sports in general. Traditionally, athletics has been viewed as a healthy outlet for natural male aggressions. But the spate of assaults has many people convinced that today's athletic environment encourages sexual violence. Reliable statistics are hard to...
For nearly a decade, Slesin, 43, has been collecting these and similar tales of electromagnetism seemingly gone awry and publishing them, meticulously researched and thoroughly documented, in an obscure bimonthly newsletter called Microwave News. His circulation is tiny (just over 500 copies), but he is well known in scientific and...
All of which is a long way from stock-car racing's roots in moonshining. During the 1930s and '40s, drivers running corn whisky from backwoods stills to thirsty customers needed their cars to be a little lighter and quicker than the sheriff's in order to remain in business...