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...find out what's biting. Superstitious residents of New York City can ring up the 976-TARO (short for tarot) to hear their fortunes, while nonsmokers can call 540- LUNG to find out about the latest tobacco-industry liability cases. Customers with Touch-Tone phones can program a wake-up service in which the customer will be greeted by a sultry recorded voice ("Time to wake up, tiger...
...middle of the night. While most of Miami is sleeping, Casanovas, the area's most electric disco, has just received its wake-up call. Attractive young women teeter across the dance floor in vertiginous high heels, their hourglass figures accentuated by off-the-shoulder Lycra tops and tight leather micromini-skirts. Handsome, heavily cologned men in open-neck shirts keep the ladies under close observation, hoping to spot the sideways glance and quick nod that signify a turn on the floor...
Duberstein's backers say his promotion will be a wake-up call for a drowsy White House. "They're entering the final stretch now, and they need a little adrenaline," says Norman Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute. "He can energize the President in a way Baker couldn't." Others say that Duberstein's hard-driving style can be alienating. "Kenny's got a strong will and a strong set of convictions," says Tom Griscom, Reagan's communications director, who is leaving the White House with Baker. "He can be tough, determined. He knows when to put his foot down...
...HAVEN--Someone sent the Harvard baseball team a perfectlytimed wake-up call...
...dropping a bulky parachute-equipped 500-lb. bomb. Hamilton, alone among all Gunsmoke pilots, elected to try an F-16 computer program called dive toss. The pilot fixes the target inside a box projected on the up screen, punches his pickle button as if setting an alarm for a wake-up call, then flies toward the target. The computer drops the bomb. "The other pilots would have thought I was crazy to let the computer decide," Hamilton admits. Like a fox. The aging warrior scored a near perfect bull's-eye each time and became this year...