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...there are other things deserving of our attention. The news gods, from their perch high atop the CNN building in Atlanta, have been hurling down one "important" story after another--all in the name of calling our bluff about our desire to focus on what "really matters." In the span of about a month, they gave us: a new war on terrorism, Russia on the brink, a shaky stock market and even a historic race to topple our national pastime's most storied record...
...Chicago Cubs' Sammy Sosa--suddenly destined to cream the home-run record as if it were a pitiful little Rawlings sphere? And, dammit, with so little suspense! Since 1961, hot stovers have debated whether Maris' feat, in a 162-game season, truly equaled Ruth's in a 154-game span. But on Saturday, when McGwire pummeled his 60th homer against Cincinnati, his team was playing only its 141st game. Sosa had a just slightly less preposterous 58 dingers in 142 Cubs games. By the time you read this, one or both of these sluggers may have made...
Finally, after three Followers children died what he considered needless deaths in a seven-month span, Lewman began aiding the Oregonian investigation. He says one shocking case was that of Alex Dale Morris, a four-year-old who complained of fever in February 1989. Fellow Followers laid hands on Alex, anointed him with oil and prayed over him for 46 days. On Day 44, a police officer acting on a tip paid a call but left after the boy himself claimed good health. Alex died two days later; his autopsy revealed an infection had filled one entire side...
...marriage 9 days Average space-shuttle flight 10 days Oxenberg/Evans marriage 12 days Barneys New York annual warehouse sale 12 days Shelf life of a professional pedicure 20 days Writing of On the Road 21 days Noncontested Tour de France 21 days Ernest Borgnine/Ethel Merman marriage 32 days Life-span of a fruit fly 70 days...
...legal battle, but the White House scored public relations points. For months the Administration had argued that if the President began to think of his bodyguards as an attachment of eavesdroppers, he would try to shake them whenever he needed privacy, with unhappy consequences for the presidential life-span. (Cut to the Zapruder film, released this month in video stores everywhere.) But in the White House, there were serious doubts all along that any court would uphold a protective privilege. Administration sources tell TIME that last week, even as the White House's argument was bumping painfully and vainly through...