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Weinberger's crackdown was prompted in part by a Pentagon report that disclosed scandalous price increases-as much as 3,725%-for spare parts being sold to the military. Critics derided the disciplinary steps as mere wrist slaps, but Weinberger disagrees: "We want to do something to ensure that we don't continue contracts like these...
Ever since the first pong was pinged, video games have been accused of increasing crime and school absenteeism, decreasing learning and concentration, and causing a mysterious ailment called video wrist. But according to a conference sponsored last week by the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the mothers and fathers of River City may breathe easier. Researchers and scientists suggested that video games may turn out to be one of the most powerful teaching tools ever devised. "Many view video games with alarm," observed David Perkins, a research director at the school, "but in the eye of some educators gleams...
...regularly swerved into the fast lane. At Harvard he roomed with Robert Kennedy's son David, who has had his much publicized drug problems. Other friends, groping for an explanation, speculate that Breindel's chronic physical pain-he had undergone several operations in recent years for wrist and kidney ailments-led him to seek an illicit painkiller. Yet it is hard to understand why he would not stick to prescription relief: both his father and sister are physicians. Still, the friends who say they were unaware of a heroin problem are not alone. The FBI, Pentagon...
...would prohibit Americans from buying imports at prices that have been subsidized in any way by foreign governments or influenced by anything other than free-market forces. "For the first offense," the bill says, the perpetrator shall have his right hand severed at the wrist." This law, Kirkland implies, would quickly eliminate the U.S. import problem. He offers an added proviso: "Any person ... apprehended in the act of making a free-trade speech to the Council on Foreign Relations ... or to any other such forum shall have his tongue extracted by heated tongs...
BUFFALO--Mike Ramsey whipped a long wrist shot past Boston gaalie Pete Peeters with 2:58 left in the game to lift the Buffalo Sabres to a 4-3 victory over the Bruins last night...