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...when she mortgaged her house to purchase a local Louisiana restaurant called Chris Steak House, advertised in a newspaper classified ad by then owner Chris Matulich. DIED. THOR HEYERDAHL, 87, Norwegian explorer whose transoceanic expeditions on primitive rafts earned him worldwide acclaim; in Colla Micheri, Italy. Kon-Tiki, Heyerdahl's 1948 account of his 7,000-km Pacific voyage on a balsa wood raft, was translated into 66 languages, and his contribution to theories of intercontinental migration remains influential today. ARRESTED. ROBERT BLAKE, 68, former child actor and star of television's Baretta, for the May 2001 murder...
...pink-and-blue neon sign shows where everyone is going: 3F, a bar and restaurant with a Southeast Asian theme. A couple of hundred people are already there, drawn by $3 cocktails and reggae and hip-hop tunes. It's so crowded that manager Jeff Short has abandoned his tiki-hut office to help behind the bar. The crowd is familiar, mostly female Japanese partyers and U.S. servicemen. Many of the girls dress alike--stiletto heels or sneakers, low-slung capris and halter tops, a spray of body glitter. (Short now says he doesn't recall a diminutive woman with...
...pink and blue neon sign shows where everyone's going: 3F, a bar and restaurant with a Southeast Asian theme. A couple hundred people are already there, drawn by $3 cocktails and reggae and hip-hop tunes. It's so crowded that manager Jeff Short has abandoned his tiki-hut office to help behind the bar. The crowd is familiar, mostly female Japanese partyers and U.S. servicemen. Many of the girls dress alike?stiletto heels or sneakers, low-slung capris and halter tops, a spray of body glitter?so Short now says he doesn't recall a short, small-boned...
...Skinny: The second Pac-10 team on the list, the Huskies have sent Brunell, Dillon, Chandler and Kennedy to the Pro Bowl. Washington gets the nod over Tennessee (Peyton Manning, Jamal Lewis), Georgia (Terrell Davis, Mo Lewis, Champ Bailey) and Virginia (Aaron Brooks, Germane Crowell, Tiki Barber) for the final spot...
Luckily, the rest of America's news team was dedicated to the Survivor story. In fact, reporters were having trouble distinguishing the results of a four-month-old, prerecorded television show from actual live news. CBS cast its local-news anchors in a deserted island set with tiki torches. And because CBS's news shows could monopolize the newsmakers created by its entertainment division, the other networks had to be pretty creative in coming up with folks to talk about the CBS show. NBC's Today show booked Dawn Wells, who played Mary Ann on Gilligan's Island. That...