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...Commission has accepted the petition, and will hold a hearing of its own on April 6 to weigh its merits...
...ground floor, as the giant sphere hovers overhead, you enter the Hall of the Universe. It features, among other things, a video wall flashing the very latest astronomical images, including downloads from the Hubble Space Telescope, and an updated version of the Hayden's popular "how much you'd weigh on other worlds" scales...
...BOXING Following the retirement of Don King, the sweet science will enjoy a soul-stirring comeback, a Periclean Age of noble warriors who fight monthly, only against worthy opponents and always on free television. At weigh-ins, the combatants salute each other by reciting, from memory, quatrains about sportsmanship by Grantland Rice...
...something. Ferret ownership has doubled in the past five years; 6 million are now in U.S. homes, placing them third in popularity among mammals, trailing cats (55 million) and dogs (50 million). Adult ferrets weigh between 1 1/2 lbs. and 3 lbs., perfect for compact living spaces, and the species' record of good behavior--according to the Animal Health Institute, ferrets are 200 times less likely to bite than dogs--makes them ideal first pets. Then there's the ferret's hip intellectual profile. "They're not pack animals," says Shefferman, "and they don't learn by rote, like dogs...
However, such a change did not seem to bother senior Kevin Kurtz or senior co-captain Joey Killar, both of whom still had to weigh in at their usual weights of 157-pounds and 165-pounds, respectively. At 165-pounds, Kurtz turned in a great performance, outwrestling John Fogarty through overtime and emerging with...