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...spectacle of stars born and reborn. Cecil Fielder, exiled to Japan last year, signs with Detroit and threatens to become the first American Leaguer to bop 50 home runs since Mantle and Maris in '61. Dave Justice, toiling in Triple A, gets promoted to the haggard Atlanta Braves in mid-May and hits 28 home runs: out of nowhere, into orbit. The arms of half the Dodgers' pitchers fall off, but the slim, steely mound grace of rookie Ramon Martinez helps sustain Los Angeles in a last-gasp pennant race...
...mid-May, more than half the frozen funds were back in circulation. The remainder belonged to increasingly irate middle-class Brazilians who would not gain access to their money until September 1991. "The feeling was that ((Collor and his government)) did something very dramatic, and then they simply blew it off through bad management," says economist Edmar Bacha of the Pontifical Catholic University in Rio. "That gave the impression that the rich got away with it again." The meltdown of the program rekindled inflation, which more than tripled to a rate of 12.9% last month. That set off new price...
After the Chernobyl nuclear-reactor catastrophe of April 26, 1986, the reports in the Soviet press led me to adopt far too sanguine an approach. One clue that should have alerted me to a possible cover-up was a mid-May report that several fire fighters had perished; if radiation levels in the vicinity of the Chernobyl plant did not exceed 10 to 15 milliroentgens an hour, what could have caused their deaths...
Counterfuls of other video magazines are also sprouting. Inside Country Music, a Nashville-based bimonthly, will begin appearing in stores nationwide in mid-May (cost: $19.95 an issue, $59.95 for a year's subscription). Rock- oriented vidmagazines like Hard 'N' Heavy are doing good business at record stores. Video magazines are being produced on golf, sailing, fishing, hunting, motorcycling and horsemanship. Nintendo freaks can get how-to-win tips in Secret Video Game Tricks, Codes & Strategies. Expatriate Britons can actually catch up on the telly back home with BBC Video World, a biweekly compilation of the best from...
...elephant population from 65,000 to 17,000. This threatens to extinguish not only the species but also income from tourism, which last year totaled $390 million. Kenya's antipoaching rangers have counterattacked, sweeping the armed invaders out of the national parks and killing 23 of them since mid-May...