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...Astro Boy's origin as a Pinocchio-like, mechanical substitute for a scientist's dead son. Cared for mostly by his teacher, Mr. Mustachio, the perpetually darling, slightly androgynous little robot boy uses his powers of flight, super strength and rear-mounted machine guns to fight evil robots. The longest of the three self-contained stories, "The Hot Dog Corps," involves a queen whose robot spaceship pilots shoot down any rocket headed for the moon. Filled with the mischievous mayhem that boys love, but told with wit and imagination, the stories always have an underlying theme of friendship and goodwill...
...payoff has come quickly. After the longest dry spell in NBA play-off history, the Mavs are in the championship running for the second year in a row. The team's revenue is a closely guarded secret, but Cuban and his lieutenants claim that it has doubled in two years, and the Mavs have sold out 30 straight home games...
After 21 days—the longest building occupation in University history—the students emerged, unshaven, behind on their schoolwork and loudly proclaiming victory, with the guarantee of a new committee to reexamine the wages of Harvard’s lowest-paid workers...
With the weekend victories, the Crimson (2-0) keeps alive the longest winning streak in modern amateur sports history, having gone undefeated in its 129 years of competition...
...Cambridge is the site of the longest and most divisive town-gown battle of recent years. The struggle over the government center made its way to the Cambridge City Council this month and shows no signs of letting...