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Consider the case of Sugar Ray Leonard. He first retired from the ring with considerable wealth and the accolades of ring pundits the world over. His fights with Roberto Duran and Thomas Hearns assured him a place in the pantheon of boxing legends...
...Marcia Duran, the director of the Aggasiz's program, the allure of chess is simple. While the game won't singlehandedly steer kids away from drugs, poverty or unemployment, it can help point them in the right direction, she said...
...Chess makes kids smart," said Duran...
...mayhem, torture and death. Heavy-metal rock, with its raw lyrics, pummeling beats, banshee vocals and buzz-saw guitars, seems custom-made for leather-clad lowlifes with tattooed biceps and lobotomized brains. Teenagers love it. Always have. But during the early 1980s, when the insipid glam-rock of Duran Duran ruled the charts, heavy metal was the idiot in the basement, shunned by music-industry executives and dismissed by critics as adolescent noise...
...hardheaded '90s. Today Duran Duran is history, and heavy metal is white-hot. Thanks to bands like Metallica, which sold 650,000 copies of its namesake album in the first week of its August release, every parent's worst nightmare has become a record executive's dream come true. Metallica entered Billboard's top-albums chart at No. 1 and stayed there for four weeks, spawning the hit single Enter Sandman. Even the critics are coming around. Rolling Stone awarded Metallica four stars in its review, calling it "an exemplary album of mature but still kickass rock & roll...