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Curt Schilling is the more talkative half of the greatest one-two pitching combination in baseball today. He and fellow Arizona Diamondback ace Randy Johnson were co-MVPs in last year?s World Series. Tonight Schilling will play in his fifth All-Star game. He tells TIME's Mitch Frank what it?s like to be an All-Star, whether players should be tested for steroids and how computers help give him an edge...
...Philip K. Dick's work, no less serious or searching, was confined to the ghetto of SF (that's the short form, folks--never, ever sci-fi). He stalked through earthly life, through five wives, a drug addiction and a nervous breakdown, seeing his SF novels published in tatty Ace paperbacks, his other fiction regularly rejected. When he died, in 1982, at 53, mainstream readers didn't know Phil Dick...
From the same marketing masterminds who catapulted Pokemon into every U.S. schoolyard comes Japan's latest export: Yu-Gi-Oh!, featuring Yugi, a nerdy kid who uses magical powers to morph into a spiky-haired, hubcap-eyed hero with a grownup bod. Yugi is an ace cardplayer who battles (using cards, of all things) with electric lizards, man-eating bugs and all manner of mystical creatures in a complex, secret world that youngsters (mostly boys ages 9 and up) can't get enough of and--lucky for the kids--most parents can't be bothered to understand...
...HEAVYWEIGHT Thai kickboxing twins Maki and Aki didn't see the guitar coming. Billy Chaka, ace investigative reporter for Youth in Asia teen magazine and expert in kung fu, kenpo, Tae-kwondo, jeet kune do, capoeira and "many of the esoteric brands between," outfought the duo with a cherry-red Gibson and plunged back into Tokyo's pulsating streets. His mission: to figure out what a little bird had to do with the deaths of a night porter in Hokkaido and the country's most beloved rock star...
...glad I competed for the Crimson all four of my years in Cambridge,” said senior distance ace Rebekah Lorenz. “This year was our best season since I arrived. We had our strongest showing at Ivies and I am proud of our team...