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...championships. Boyd, 21, is a young phenom on a tear, leading an inspired team that will be playing to the home folks. In mid-December he won the ferocious downhill at Val Gardena, Italy, for the second year in a row. Grrrr! Another helping of your 20-penny galvanized, waiter, with a quart of jalapeno sauce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pirmin Zurbriggen: Super-Z Zips and Zaps Them All | 2/15/1988 | See Source »

...usually try to arrange group fares." On the road, the activities occasionally deviate somewhat from physics. One night Stephen accompanied a group to a Chicago discotheque, where he joined in the festivities by wheeling onto the dance floor and spinning his chair in circles. Later, in a restaurant, a waiter passed the cork from a newly opened bottle of wine under Stephen's nose. The computer beeped, and the voice proclaimed, "Very good." Hawking was just being polite; the tracheostomy also deprived him of his sense of smell. Says Indian-born Amarjit Chohan, one of Stephen's nurses: "There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STEPHEN HAWKING: Roaming the Cosmos | 2/8/1988 | See Source »

...better the lot of the average worker. The money has been used to repair roads, complete the airport and build a bright pink mental institution to replace the one accidentally destroyed by American bombs. But impatience abounds. "We should have moved much faster than we have," says a waiter at a near empty beachfront hotel. "Except for the airport, I haven't seen much improvement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grenada One U.S. Invasion Later . . . | 11/23/1987 | See Source »

Gloating was inevitable, from the bad jokes making the rounds in San Francisco's financial district (What do you call a 28-year-old trader in suspenders? Hey, waiter!) to the hand-lettered sign in the window of Cafe Chameleon, a Manhattan nightclub: SO YOUR BROKER'S A LITTLE BROKER? Says Edward Singer, 62, a Portland, Ore., broker: "These younger money managers had become godlike in giving advice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Crash: Snapped by Their Own Suspenders Ouch! | 11/2/1987 | See Source »

...waiter brings our check. We have no money, so we count pennies, literally. Dredging our pockets and the recesses of our bookbags for spare change. We're going to have to leave a very small...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coffee Is A State Of Mind | 10/23/1987 | See Source »

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