Word: seconds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what's brewing here? Tea once was regarded as a bitter-tasting second choice to coffee by most Americans. But in the mid 1990s, interest perked up when studies suggested that the drink, particularly green tea, can ward off some cancers, packs a wallop of vitamin C and even boasts fluoride for the teeth. A Harvard study this year found that a cup of black tea a day cuts the risk of heart attacks by 44%. What's more, caffeine freaks, jangly from coffee's finger-in-the-socket jolt and drop, are coming to appreciate the smoother caffeine boost...
...CONSTANT LAMBERT Tiresias/Pomona (Hyperion). Constant Lambert's final ballet score was roundly damned by critics at its 1951 premiere, then went unplayed for 40 years. This recording (performed by the English Northern Philharmonia, conducted by David Lloyd Jones and happily coupled with the ballet Pomona) gives a second chance to a masterpiece...
...MARK MCGWIRE and SAMMY SOSA It wasn't as exciting the second time around, but it was more impressive. Roger Maris disappeared into a career of poor stats after he broke Babe Ruth's record, but these guys nearly matched their '98 feats, McGwire with 65 homers and Sosa with...
...JOHN ELWAY After nearly a lifetime of playing the loser, the NFL's greatest comeback strategist applied that same skill to his career, winning a second Super Bowl before deciding his pained body couldn't handle any more. You can credit the coaching, the line or Terrell Davis, but the Broncos collapsed when Elway left...
...TIGER WOODS He was already the world's most ubiquitous athlete in the post-Jordan era. Now he has proved he's also its most amazing. Woods won his second major title and eight tournaments (including a gravity-defying four in a row) and made almost as much money as The Sixth Sense. Perhaps the most awe-inspiring feat was the juggling-ball trick in that Nike...