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Although having a baby is a highly personal endeavor, those whose fame requires them to announce their pregnancy in a press release have got to expect some interference. MADONNA, who disclosed last week that she is pregnant with her second child, has already been the subject of public debate on whether she should marry the baby's father, British director GUY RITCHIE. And while a London paper has speculated that a baby boy will be named after Rupert Everett, Madonna's co-star in The Next Best Thing, there are other obvious choices. Since her first child, Lourdes, shares...
DIED. CARLO PAROLA, 79, Italian soccer star who gained international fame for the acrobatic bicycle kick he popularized in the 1940s; in Turin, Italy...
Ever since the Old Patagonian Express rose to fame from the pages of Paul Theroux's 1979 best seller, this narrow-gauge line in southern Argentina has been a Mecca for steam-train lovers. "We're still running the same original engines from the year 1922," says El Maiten stationmaster Marcelo Ballerini. "Tourists arrive from all over the world to ride it." Threatened with extinction at various times during recent years, this fully steam-operated line running across the dry Patagonian steppes has been kept alive by Theroux's readers and a few locals who still board it along...
...nose to the tip of its spindly tail), the Linsters called it Bambi, a name now formalized as Bambiraptor feinbergi, with a bow to the family that bought the specimen for the museum. But there is nothing deerlike about it. A kin of the ferocious velociraptors of Jurassic Park fame and more distantly of mighty T. rex, Bambi is a type of dromeosaur, small, upright-walking meat eaters that lived during the late Cretaceous period...
Lincoln went on to worry that great and ambitious men, living after the great deeds of the Founding, might achieve fame through destruction rather than preservation of political institutions. An ambitious man of the loftiest genius, he wrote, "would as willingly, perhaps more so, acquire [distinction] by doing good as harm; yet, that opportunity being past, and nothing left to be done in the way of building up, he would set boldly to the task of pulling down." To overcome such a threat, Lincoln argued, a people must be united together and to their government...