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...Holm and Kerri Strug of Sergeant York. Loathe him or merely dislike him, we shake our heads in wonder over the crossover talents of Deion Sanders. Appreciate 'em if you got 'em: Evander Holyfield, Pete Sampras, Brett Favre, Jeff Gordon. Maybe Silver Charm lost by three-quarters of a length the other day because a Triple Crown would have been asking for too much in a time when almost every sport can touch gold...
...entirely consistent with the practices of 1595," says Peter McCurdy, the meticulous master carpenter who directed the construction project. Still, some compromises had to be made. For example, goat hair had to be used to give body to the plaster because no cow hair of the proper--and authentic--length could be found...
...human Doberman was beginning to disappear into the legend who made an art form of the "Author's Note." Yet by then editors had realized that his fictions were truer to reality than the most dogged reportage and that his letters explaining, at demented length, why he could not produce an article were more telling than the articles themselves. If the sorrow of later Thompson is that more and more of his pieces read like celebrity walkabouts at 4 a.m., the pleasure of these letters is that they have all the rude vitality...
...notice that this ole world isn't spinning like it used to? To keep clocks in synch the National Institute of Standards and Technology will add an extra, or leap, second on June 30. Atomic clocks use a length of a second that doesn't represent the long-term slowing trend, so they're a teeny-weeny bit fast. Says NIST spokesman Collier Smith: "We stop the hands of the clock long enough for the world to catch...
...agency also allows "rolling submissions," meaning it will accept and release initial reviews of drug components that are prepared earlier than the rest. For Agouron the difference was startling: the FDA's review of the Viracept application took a total of only 83 days; in 1992 the average length of time for FDA drug approval was 19 months...