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...step aboard the vaulting epic Ahab's Wife (Morrow; 668 pages; $28), by Sena Jeter Naslund, and almost instantly you are in New England in 1840, a charged, visionary realm atremble with religious longings and debate. Privets are shaped like sperm whales. Inns are kept by witches. Women ask each other in passing, "What do you think of the afterlife?" Your guide through this God-racked wilderness is a classically captivating heroine, Una Spenser, drawn equally to storms and speculations...
...folks at Gatorade struck gold in the late 1980s when they invented the "sports drink"--essentially water, flavoring, a dolop of electrolytes and whacky coloring. Soon, nearly every major sport had Gatorade coolers on the sidelines. And then, with Michael Jordan jumping aboard, just about every athlete wanted to be like Mike and sweat orange bullets...
...folks at Gatorade struck gold in the late 1980s when they invented the "sports drink"--essentially water, flavoring, a dolop of electrolytes and whacky coloring. Soon, nearly every major sport had Gatorade coolers on the sidelines. And then, with Michael Jordan jumping aboard, just about every athlete wanted to be like Mike and sweat orange bullets...
...Scaling back the campaign finance reform bill may get more Republicans aboard, but it leaves many of us who have been involved in the reform movement for years... believing that we are doing something and accomplishing nothing...
...United Auto Workers both dissented, calling Sweeney?s dictum "a sod job" and citing southern-fried wisdom about weighing one?s pig before wrapping it. Which hardly means they were Bradley backers ? just that they wanted to soak Gore for a few more concessions before climbing aboard. In fact, what impressed Branegan was how quietly ?- and quickly ? the rest of the AFL-CIO went along. "It seems to be a very enlightened group," he says. "Both Bradley and Gore are free-traders ? Gore?s biggest moment was defending NAFTA against Perot ? and there hasn?t been a word about that...