Home Sweet Home: Winning $21 million in...

Home Sweet Home: Winning $21 million in the lottery definitely means a “major lifestyle decision,” says David Moreland, who, at 33, lives with his parents in a Baltimore suburb. But Moreland, an administrator for Martin Marietta, will start small and share the prize--the biggest in Maryland history--with his family. Then maybe he’ll turn to his hobby: gardening. “I think I can buy maybe two wheelbarrows--one for the top of the hill and one for the bottom of the hill,” he says. No word yet on whether that hill will be at his parents’ place or at a place of his own.

* Princely Sums: Prince or no prince, U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis Monday slapped Saudi Prince Faisal Yazid Abdullah Al-Saud with a $100-a-day fine. The reason? The prince wrote bad checks to a Virginia businessman and now he won’t come to court. “The prince is a very busy man,” says his lawyer, Saleem Samaan. According to court papers, the troubles began in 1985 when Prince Faisal paid Chawky B. Jabaly two checks totaling $166,000 to sell telecommunications equipment and to help him set up a mobile telephone company. But both checks bounced. When, and if, the prince pays, Jabaly probably will ask for a money order.

* Professor Goode: Apparently, those who leave politics, teach. The latest defector is Philadelphia’s mayor, W. Wilson Goode. The skinny from Philly is that Goode is considering Muhlenberg College; he’d probably teach political science or sociology. The mayor, prevented by charter from seeking a third consecutive term, expects to make a decision by next month.

* Quoting: “To be honest, before it was publicized in our national magazine, people just called the number because it was next to Dial-a-Prayer,” says atheist Robert Fireovid. The number folks in Massachusetts are calling is Dial-an-Atheist, sponsored by the western Massachusetts branch of American Atheists. The recorded message lays out some tenets of atheism and invites the caller to join the organization. Fireovid appeals to atheists to come out of the closet, saying: “You, like 7% to 15% of Americans, may be an atheist but don’t know it or are afraid to admit it.”