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...some has-beens and never-would-have-beens in major league uniforms and see what happens. Well, the fans stayed away--only so many of us remember Butch Metzger, a pitcher who resurfaced 17 years after his last major league appearance. And the baseball was pretty drab, with too many groundouts and too few extra-base hits. "Major leaguers have multiple tools," said Marlin pitcher-stockbroker Steve Fireovid. "Most of us have a tool." Tiger manager Sparky Anderson refused to watch it, and the Baltimore Orioles refused to play it, in part to preserve Cal Ripken's 2,009-game...
...grace of Lightman's writing in Einstein's Dreams. There, his use of sparse, simple language served him well allowing him to suggest possible worlds through short, carefully chosen phrases, quick touches of color, and imaginative details. In Good Benito, however, his language falls flat and his colors seem drab...
Deep within the drab concrete headquarters of thecult Aum Shinri Kyo, Japanese police today discovered a hidden chemical lab and a storeroom filled with the ingredients for nerve gas. The cult is the chief suspect in last week's nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system that killed 10 and injured thousands, with hundreds still hospitalized. In another cult building, police found underground rooms that they believed were used to imprison people who tried to flee the sect. Police found millions of dollars worth of yen, piles of gold bars and tons of chemicals in cult buildings, including theingredients...
...hospitals that later employed Sacks would never do as sets for a TV-doc opera. He has worked for years under drab and underfunded conditions, treating cases that most physicians rarely see: Tourette's syndrome, which can cause uncontrollable tics and twitches and outbursts of profanity; or brain injuries that preserve old memories but prevent the forming of new ones...
...OFFICES OF LIFE DYNAMICS, INC., SEEM ANYTHING BUT DYNAMIC. L.D.I. is located in a drab brick building in Denton, Texas, a few blocks away from the Howdy Doody Drive-In Grocery. Inside, the office has the businesslike air of a real estate brokerage--yet it soon becomes clear that there's a political passion here you won't find on display at Century 21. At L.D.I. coffee is served in mugs that read ABORTION STOPS A BEATING HEART. A smiling young man sitting in front of a word processor, one soon learns, was once arrested for his role...