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...Banna loved America.  During his nearly two years in the U.S., al-Banna, a lawyer by training, made a living as a factory worker, a shuttle-bus driver and a pizza tosser. He went to the World Trade Center and the Golden Gate Bridge, grew his hair long and listened to Nirvana. He told his family back in Jordan about the honesty and kindness of Americans. "They respect anybody who is sincere," he told his father. He said he had planned to marry an American woman until her parents demanded that the wedding take place in a Christian church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Jihadist's Tale | 3/28/2005 | See Source »

...also sired Dan McGwire, backup quarterback of the Seattle Seahawks, says that his son's baseball success surprises him: "We expected him to get an education and to take care of himself in that way." Though accused of using steroids, McGwire says he hasn't, that his log tosser's body is the result of intensive weight-room work. Rod Dedeaux, who coached McGwire at U.S.C. as well as on the Olympic team of 1984, says, "Mark has power of heart as well as power physically." Of the home-run record, he says, "If anyone can do it, it will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: The Fun Is Back | 7/27/1998 | See Source »

After many unconventional adventures--such as riding to Hong Kong in a train full of pigs and trading Sun's talents as a dwarf tosser for passage to America--the two adventures finally steal the sutra from a Buddhist library in the United States and return to China...

Author: By Brady S. Martin, | Title: Light Fare for Adventurers | 1/30/1992 | See Source »

...could have helped all of Massachusetts. As any visitor to Harvard Square will tell you, bottles and cans greatly contribute to urban litter. And in rural areas, too, unwelcome bottles put a blight on nature and upset ecology. The bill would not only prevent many a hitherto callous bottle-tosser from strewing the streets with refuse, it would also give passersby an incentive to pick up the discarded containers. And, as the economists would say, the resulting cleanliness represents an externality--a cost or benefit to society not reflected in the market price. By charging a nickel or dime deposit...

Author: By Seth A. Tucker, | Title: Canning the Governor | 11/16/1981 | See Source »

...Delegates to the national American Athletic Union convention did away with a couple of bits of unnecessary nonsense. They banned the "Spanish style" javelin throw (in which the spear tosser twirls like a discus thrower and has little control over direction), and they decided that, by next August, Olympic Hurdler Lee Calhoun will be an amateur once more. Calhoun's professional transgression: he was married on TV's gift-happy Bride and Groom show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Dec. 9, 1957 | 12/9/1957 | See Source »

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