Word: atlanta
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...questions weigh heavily on Hall, the lanky, mercurial Arizonan who is one of the U.S.'s best hopes for Atlanta gold in swimming. It is a sport once dominated by Americans, but today China, Australia, Germany, Hungary and Russia produce champions. No wonder Hall, a 6-ft. 6-in., 185-lb. 21-year-old who may be the most gifted U.S. swimmer since Mark Spitz, cracks his knuckles and fiddles nervously with a copper wrist bracelet--a souvenir from his first Dead concert. "I'm 10 feet from the top of the mountain," he says. "When you're that close...
...ATLANTA: Looks like strawberries are off the hook. Contaminated raspberries from Guatemala appear to have caused this spring's outbreak of cyclospora, the intestinal illnesses that infected some 850 people in the United States and Canada, federal health officials said Thursday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that when investigators traced 21 cases back to their source, they identified raspberries grown in some regions of Guatemala as the culprit. The fruits were contaminated with microscopic parasite that infects the small intestine and causes watery diarrhea. Antibiotics cure the infection, but diarrhea and other symptoms can last weeks...
...ATLANTA: The Shaq Attack is going Hollywood. The Los Angeles Lakers announced Thursday that they have signed the motherlode of NBA free agents, Orlando's Shaquille O'Neal, to a seven-year, $120 million contract. The move to Los Angeles allows O'Neal, a recording and movie star in his spare time, to more easily pursue these other endeavours. While Laker fans are excited about the addition of a new megastar to the Los Angeles scene, the reaction in Orlando may not be as negative as one would expect. In a poll in the Orlando Sentinel earlier this week...
...decade later, the prophet stands at the sixth-floor balcony outside his office at the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games (A.C.O.G.), surveying his sweltering promised land. To the north lie the new Olympic Village dorms and the aquatic center; right below him to the west is Centennial Olympic Park, swarming with scores of road-paving, tent-erecting workers frantically engaged in the last-second realization of his vision...
...thing to remember about Payne is that until a prophet proves himself, he pretty much comes off as a blowhard. An obscure real estate lawyer winning the Olympics for Atlanta? The city laughed--until he pulled it off. Build the largest urban park America has seen in decades, thereby changing Atlanta history? The city hasn't stopped laughing at that...