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...plaza leading to the basketball venue in the gritty Barcelona suburb of Badalona is free of T-shirt hawkers, ticket scalpers and the sunburned masses sporting Cleveland Indians caps and L.A. Raiders shorts. The basketball junkies from the land of Johnson, Jordan, Bird and Barkley are still asleep. But inside the arena, there are large men, graceful and lithe, already hard at work. Their goals: silver, bronze or merely a good finish in the basketball tournament...
...large, horned mammal that may be a kind of goat. Scientists brought out bones and skin samples to help them find out where it fits in the evolutionary puzzle. The expedition, sponsored by the World Wildlife Fund, also brought back sightings or specimens of two new species of bird, one new kind of fish, and a previously unknown, yellow- shelled tortoise -- and there are probably more new creatures to be found. A follow-up expedition is already in the works...
...congressional newspaper Roll Call reports that of 28 SENATE MILLIONAIRES, 21 are Democrats. According to standard financial-disclosure forms, which often yield conservative estimates, Virginia Senator Charles Robb, a Democrat, leads the pack, with a net worth of at least $19 million (thanks mostly to wife Lynda Bird Johnson's family holdings). Among the other wealthiest Democrats: Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island (net worth: $13.7 million), Herb Kohl of Wisconsin ($12.7 million), Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia ($8.7 million), Lloyd Bentsen of Texas ($5.8 million), Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts ($2 million) and Bob Kerrey of Nebraska ($1.5 million...
...coach Chuck Daly has at his disposal the greatest arsenal of offensive and defensive weapons ever gathered on a basketball court. There are passers with 360 degrees vision like Bird (despite his creaky back), John Stockton and Magic. Chris Mullin and Jordan are excellent three-point shooters. No one in possession of his faculties and desirous of retaining them would dare drive down the lane into territory defended by Charles Barkley, Patrick Ewing and Karl Malone. Jordan and his Chicago Bulls teammate Scottie Pippen are tenacious open-court defenders. Then too there are Clyde Drexler and the Admiral, David Robinson...
...Olympics have a built-in advantage, for the Olympics offer no official cash prizes, and they reward the majority of their competitors with nothing but bright memories. For every Larry Bird or Steffi Graf, there are at least 300 athletes with the odds firmly stacked against them. And for every Ben Johnson, there are a hundred others who are neither competitive nor affluent enough to boost their chances with illicit drugs. The Olympics, in fact, are a festival of underdogs: at least 130 of the nations that will compete in Barcelona will have the luxury of being...