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After listening to three weeks of sharply conflicting evidence, studying 28 separate instructions on the law from the judge, and going into seclusion to weigh six possible guilty verdicts, the jurors in a Fort Collins, Colo., courthouse had every right to be confused. At issue were such wispy questions as whether Eugene Tafoya, 45, a much decorated former Green Beret, was working for the CIA or, in effect, for Libya's Muammar Gaddafi, when Tafoya knocked on the door of Libyan Student Faisal Zagallai, 36, in Fort Collins on Oct. 14,1980, and left the outspoken anti-Gaddafi dissident...
...commission, having served on it from 1958 to 1964. "I was sitting on the commission when Cassius Clay--now he's Muhammad Ali--was going to fight Sonny Liston," Rawson said, explaining that the fight never took place because Clay discovered a hernia injury the day of the weigh...
...college. Among them: a teacher-student ratio of 12 to 1 or better, a conservative curriculum (Hampden-Sydney was the last U.S. college to drop its classical language requirement) and sport programs in which, as W. & L. Admissions Director Bill Hartog puts it, "you don't have to weigh 250 pounds and run a four-second 40-yard dash to play football...
...realistic picture of probable longevity than old-fashioned actuarial tables, which relied almost exclusively on the subject's heredity patterns and medical history. Current computations try to measure risk in relation to environment, stress and general behavior, though statisticians and experts do not always agree on how to weigh the components. A high salary may not be as detrimental to longevity-because of competitive stress-as many quizzes suggest. On the other hand, marriage or living together, usually assumed to increase one's chances of living longer, may actually increase stress, especially for notably embattled partners. National average...
...skinnifying foods. On the weekend of October 11, the members of the crew selected to compete in the Women's Invitational Regatta in South Hadley. Conn., were treated to bags and bags of peanut and plain M and Ms because, as senior captain SUZANNE HASSEL says. "After weigh-in, anything is game for eating." The crew, which has 130 pounds as a maximum weight limit, usually is chaned to cans of tuna fish and Tab in the spring to meet the scale's demands--and that means few, if any, of the multi-colored treats if the poundage amount registered...