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...Olympics they will be on thin ice once again. Last month the Duchesnays withdrew from the European championships after Paul suffered a flare-up of an old groin injury. The default neither jeopardized the Duchesnays' berth on the French team nor presaged a no-show in Albertville -- "We will be there if we have to crawl," Isabelle assures. But it cost them a valuable opportunity to preview their new long program, an intricate dance choreographed by Dean and set to music from West Side Story. A routine that relies on such familiar strains is unlikely to meet with the resistance...
Sideburns, In the 1950s they were rebelious and sexy--personified by James Dean and a thin pelvic-thrusting Elvis. In the 1970s they were big, ugly and decidedly mainstream, personified by the Four Men living All Together of the Brady Bunch and a fat, bloated, drugged-out Elvis. Now, like The King reappearing in an Iowa McDonald's they have come back to haunt us--maybe...
Once Marvin has collected her samples, she slices them into thin wafers just 30 microns thick to test their optical properties and to perform chemical analyses...
Stereotypes don't materialize out of thin air. No matter how patently offensive, distorted or uncomfortable, there is always a certain degree of statistical significance at the core...
Bush paid a high political price in exchange for this thin gruel. By pressing Tokyo to commit itself to purchase specific quantities of U.S. products, Bush abandoned his long-held free-trade principles for less competitive "managed trade," in which governments agree to pressure private industries to meet preset goals. Trying typically to have it both ways, the President repeatedly warned that any departure from free trade would damage the U.S. economy, which has become increasingly dependent on sales of American exports. Arriving in Washington on Friday, he denied that the Tokyo accords were tantamount to protectionism...