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...training camp, Shavers ended each workout with a medicine ball drill that brought to a boil his intense determination to be the next champ of the world...
...Mengele has found his way into contemporary literature. In Rolf Hochhuth's The Deputy, he was the model for The Doctor who taunted God to punish him for his killings at Auschwitz. He is the inspiration for the drill-wielding Nazi named Szell in William Goldman's Marathon Man, and the mad doctor who sought to re-create a batch of little Hitlers in Ira Levin's The Boys from Brazil...
...doing for them, and estimates that some 6 million people lose perfectly salvageable teeth each year, many at "extraction mills." Writes Denholtz, quoting a Pennsylvania insurance department estimate: 15% of all dentists are "incompetent, dishonest or both." As an antidote to such outrages, the book urges consumers to drill their dentists on basic subjects like costs, procedures and alternatives before submitting to anything more drastic than a tooth cleaning...
...computer men-Hammer believes Russian cyberneticists are often better logicians than their U.S. counterparts. However, they are oriented toward the oretical problems. At the big Soviet training institutes, students concentrate very little on the standard international computer language for commerce, known as COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language). Instead, they drill in ALGOL and FORTRAN, the two major scientific languages...
...drilling is the work of independent operators Their names-Houston Oil & Minerals Mesa Petroleum; Sanchez-O'Brien and Denver's Davis Oil are some of the "hot" outfits-are unknown to the public. But last year Davis, for example, discovered more onshore gas and oil wells in the U.S. than Exxon. Lately the big firms have begun to drill more too. So far this year Shell has sunk 59 wells in the U.S., compared with only...