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MOST LIKELY TO BURST A VESSEL HyperSonic XLC, Kings Dominion, Va. A pneumatic launcher blasts riders 0-80 m.p.h. in 1.8 sec. and shoots them over a 165-ft. vertical tower with G-forces that even astronauts don't endure...
...meals but no cigarettes, TV or air conditioning in heat that often tops 100[degrees]F. He isn't allowed to speak or write to friends and family. His mother, Arlene Jordan, who works in the engineering-services department at Fort Eustis, the U.S. Army base in Hampton Roads, Va., says she used to chat with her son every week by phone but hasn't communicated with him since his arrest. "Let's just say he is very far away from home," she tells TIME. He may be there for a long time. The African American is charged with raping...
...contrast, two other groups chose a more provocative path. In July of this year, the Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicine in Norfolk, Va., made headlines by announcing that it had created embryos (from donated sperm and eggs) expressly to extract their stem cells. A few days later, a Massachusetts biotech firm, Advanced Cell Technology, disclosed that it was trying to create embryos using human-cloning techniques. The back-to-back developments surprised opponents and supporters alike, and brought new calls for a ban on all embryonic stem-cell research...
...share, guilt that frightfully few want to accept. So in the spirit of hunting down demons, I call upon government to fund immediately a Department of Pathetic Investors and have DOPI look into the methods and motivations of those who eagerly plunked down their savings for the likes of VA Linux and iVillage. I'm confident that the inquiry would produce damning evidence of investors' blatant greed, deceit, blind lust for wealth, sorry ethics and outright fraud. In other words, they were no better behaved than the analysts and bankers...
There was a flurry of media excitement last week when a tip suggested Chandra Levy's body was buried in Fort Lee, Va. The lead turned out to be bogus. For Chandra's mother Susan, it was an especially hard episode. "I'm not holding up very well," she tells TIME. "It's been a very rough week." Levy says both she and her husband Robert take sleeping pills and tranquilizers at night. "I'm often sick to my stomach. It's sheer terror." Still, Levy won't call for Gary Condit to quit. "Let the people decide for themselves...