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...Crimson players skated into the National Hockey League (NHL) during last Saturday draft in Buffalo...

Author: By Jennifer M. Siegel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: NHL Drafts Two Crimson Players | 7/2/1998 | See Source »

Feaster was the Sparks' first pick in the April WNBA draft. She led the team in scoring in pre-season, averaging 18.5 points per game in the Sparks' exhibition schedule...

Author: By Alan E. Wirzbicki, | Title: Feaster Put on Sparks Injured List | 6/26/1998 | See Source »

...last week New Jersey learned of the measure's unforeseen consequences. According to a draft study prepared for the state health department by Rutgers University, the cap boosted New Jersey's abortion rate by an estimated 240 procedures a year. This "small but nontrivial" effect seemed to prove what antiabortion groups like the Catholic Conference have long warned: that some women having to choose between raising a child without cash benefits and having an abortion paid for by Medicaid will pick abortion. And the report is likely to become exhibit A for the American Civil Liberties Union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Incite to Abort | 6/22/1998 | See Source »

State health officials have kicked the report back to Rutgers, alleging faulty methodology in the $1 million study. Governor Christine Todd Whitman, who had promised to revisit the law if it increased abortions, now sidesteps that pledge, saying the report is "only a draft." Conservative groups like the Heritage Foundation and the Family Research Council, which had lobbied for the cap to be made federal law despite the objections of other pro-life groups, avoided comment. But the hard questions aren't going away. Rutgers is reviewing its study, but researchers don't expect the results to change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Incite to Abort | 6/22/1998 | See Source »

...NAME] MIKE BIBBY [JOB] Basketball player [WHY IN THE NEWS] Projected to be high pick in the 1998 NBA draft [DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTIC] Can hit from downtown [FREQUENTLY PHOTOGRAPHED] Dribbling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Jun. 8, 1998 | 6/8/1998 | See Source »

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