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Stealing three F-16 jet-fighter engines and whisking them out of a military air base is no easy feat. The $2 million Pratt & Whitney machines are 17 ft. long and weigh more than 3,000 lbs. each. But two weeks ago, a military policeman at Utah's Hill Air Force Base towed the mighty machines through an unguarded gate and flogged them to a dealer in military surplus...
...year-old home of Solidarity leader Lech Walesa. Women from the neighborhood had prepared an avalanche of Polish dishes, ranging from smoked eel to schnitzel. Bush looked at the groaning board and commented, "My mother taught me to eat what's before you. In this house I would weigh 300 lbs." Framed pictures of Christ were in almost every room; crucifixes hung over most of the doors. By Polish standards the house was a mansion; Walesa noted that his work with Solidarity had some benefits...
Today's manual mowers typically weigh about 20 lbs., less than half their clunky progenitors, thanks to lightweight alloy blades and polymer wheels. But for lawn connoisseurs, the manual mower's greatest advantage is its quality performance, claims Jim Hewitt, American Lawn Mower's vice president for marketing and sales. "A power mower can fragment the end of the grass like the split end of a hair," he explains. "A manual shears the lawn real smooth, like a crew...
March 4: The wrestling team is stripped of its title because of a failure of proper weigh-in procedures in its 24-16 win over Columbia. As a result, the title is thrown to the Lions...
...than Wright by a factor of 100. Unlike Wright, he keeps his word." If anything, Foley has a reputation among some House Democrats for being too conciliatory, bringing the Republicans into decisions too often. Even colleagues who admire him feel that Foley can be excessively cautious and prone to weigh every option...