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Dadason has been particularly outstanding the last two weeks for head coach Dieter Ficken's Lions. Faced with a tie game against Pennsylvania this past Saturday, Dadason lifted the team past the Quakers with two overtime goals. The victory kept Columbia just a game back of Princeton and Yale in the loss column. Dadason is the second-leading overall scorer in the league with 15 points on seven goals and one assist...
...others didn't. Instead of evolving because they were better, maybe they evolved because there was a sudden vacuum." For whatever reason, the early mammals, although they arose at about the same period, remained bit players for the next 150 million years. "Mammals during this time," says Hans-Dieter Sues of the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, "were nothing more than small, insect-eating organisms...
...business administration; he is now an executive with Mercedes-Benz. After wondering whether to attend university at all, Poeck moved into engineering and an eventual partnership in a consulting firm. He spent several years working in Asia and Africa, where he thinks he can contribute more than at home. Dieter Klussmeyer studied law on his way to the civil service post of district draft-board chief in his hometown. Only Werner Marker, an ophthalmologist, and Klaus Giersiepen, a lawyer, were certain of their career plans...
...outrageously expensive. G&M, a mail-order house in Bavaria, caters specifically to such tastes, offering a catalog of 273 "carefully selected luxury gifts," with a total value of $26.5 million; among them are a Tabriz rug for $964,000 and a gold-plated record player for $75,000. Dieter Schiwietz, a Hamburg plastic surgeon, says women -- and men -- seem to be having no trouble finding money for face-lifts costing up to $70,000. Says Schiwietz: "Looking good is an important part of the good life...
...Dieter, the revolution has been a betrayal. He says he feels let down both by the old-party Stalinists who "misused us as tools for their private purposes" and by his superiors. "Most of them grabbed state pensions and disappeared," he says. "They have little people like me to bear their burdens...