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Basketball as birth control: the sublimating trajectory of ball to hoop cartooned the urgent, intimate quest of sperm to ovum--and, so to speak, contracepted it. Basketball converted raw adolescent pagan fuel to a useful chastity--that is, to play. For years when I saw teenagers on the court shooting baskets, I would say to myself, "I know what's on your minds, you dirty boys...
...issue of biological resources is far more complicated, largely because it doesn't involve huge exports. Just a few seeds--or, in the age of biotechnology, a few cells--can give a foreign company the raw materials to mass-produce a profitable medicine or fertilizer or pesticide. The question has become more urgent over the past couple of decades because the richest sources of such natural products are tropical rain forests, which are generally found in impoverished Third World countries...
Anticipation buoys these sweepstakes-hardened pros as they embark on yet another chapter in their eternal quest for the perfect "face at the door," one that can be videotaped for use in the company's ubiquitous television commercials. Raw emotion sells, and Prize Patrol members consider themselves connoisseurs of screams and tears. The all-time champion is Emma Taylor of Gary, Indiana, whose joyful if repetitive response to being declared a winner earned her the nickname "the thank-you-Jesus lady...
...thought it was a bit raw," Mansfield said. "I don't know of any precedents for demonstrating in the classroom...
...such late Coltrane albums as A Love Supreme--will release two more albums in October: the complete Africa/Brass sessions, in which Coltrane experiments with tribal rhythms, and Stellar Regions, mostly unreleased songs recorded with his pianist wife Alice only months before his death. The latest trove: 30 hours of raw tape found earlier this year, rescued as they were about to be trashed. Impulse! is negotiating to release these recordings starting next year. Dorn calls it "possibly one of the great musical discoveries of all time." And possibly not, but for the Coltrane revival, another giant step...