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...over-the-hill pugs Michael Dokes and Jesse Ferguson. Looking beyond this Saturday's fight, some fight fans think they might see Bowe under some strain in a matchup with Lennox Lewis, the British boxer who defeated him in the 1988 Olympics. Lewis, another 6-ft. 5-in. power tower, inherited one of Bowe's three heavyweight titles after Bowe and his manager-mentor, Rock Newman, rejected the World Boxing Council's timetable for a fight with the Brit. Lewis has defended the W.B.C. title twice, but he hasn't performed as impressively as his American rival...
...Garden Street matter in perspective, consider the case of the Prudential Center in Boston's Back Bay. The Prudential Tower contains literally tones of sprayed-on fire proofing containing 60 percent amosite asbestos. Amosite asbestos is claimed by some to have a greater disease-causing potential than chrysotile, the type presumably in the linoleum at 29 Garden Street...
Based upon ten years of periodic air sampling at the Tower, an expert biostatician has calculated that the relative risk associated with working in the Tower for 20 years is equivalent to smoking one pack of cigarettes in an entire lifetime (lung cancer only), riding a motorcycle for 11 miles, spending time indoors over five months (radon exposure), or going on a two-week vacation in the Rocky Mountains (ultraviolet radiation...
...DeWolfe residents searching for local programing are more likely to find "Laughing Matters," a comedy about a group of lesbians, or "Ivory Tower," a soap opera about Harvard...
Kennedy was drinking from a two-liter Cokebottle when he finally snapped. He climbed to thetop of the Lampoon's tower, threw open the windowsand shared his Coke with the parties below...