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...When Teen Wolf was released in 1985, the world was blessed with one of the most memorably cheesy and obscenely hilarious flicks of the modern age. This tale of a talentless high school point guard who escapes mediocrity when his latent werewolf genes spring into action spawned a much lesser sequel, a Saturday morning cartoon and scores of admirers. Nowadays, much of the film’s appeal is in the limitless unintentional comedy, especially the wildly crappy basketball scenes, featuring Fox’s “skills.” But there’s more going...
...Afghan tribal groups, the Chahar Aimaq and the Baloch, expanded their color palette and changed their subject matter to reflect the jarring reality that their homeland had become a battlefield. Over the next decade, they produced carpets featuring rocket launchers, machine guns, bombs, and helicopter gunships. In lesser numbers, these carpets are still produced. Collectors describe them as a vital emotional response to the country's devastation, souvenirs for departing Soviet soldiers, and profit engines to raise cash for mujahedin guerrillas...
...queasy. trainers encourage short, sharp breaths in place of squirming and grimacing. "It sounds like a lamaze class with cursing," says lou abato, a new york city trainer. the technique was invented in 1982 by trainer ken hutchins, who believes that other methods can cause injury and provide lesser results. Though Superslow has many skeptics, a study published in the journal of sports medicine and physical fitness showed that beginners had 50% more muscle growth than those who used traditional weight-lifting methods. But after the study, only two of the 147 participants chose to subject themselves to it again...
...than are allowed at trial. The ruling in U.S. v. Fell followed a similar one by a New York judge in July. The irony is that in both cases the Attorney General ordered the local federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty even though they wanted to ask for lesser sentences. Since taking office, Ashcroft has reversed prosecutors' sentencing recommendations and sought capital punishment in cases involving 16 defendants. Now it appears his hard-line stance has opened a Pandora's box of legal ammunition for death-penalty foes. Recently Ashcroft told prosecutors in upstate New York...
...fourth-quarter collapse is not at all reminiscent of the meltdowns characteristic of the 5-5 Harvard teams from 1999 and 2000. Those squads, which all juniors and seniors will remember, engaged in spectacular game-ending debacles marked by a comic inability to close out Ivy games against lesser teams...