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...with the same kind of talent, but it was Mark who went all the way," says Tom Carroll, his coach at Damien, a Roman Catholic high school in suburban Los Angeles. "He really wanted it. He has the work ethic." Even his dentist father, who also sired Dan McGwire, backup quarterback of the Seattle Seahawks, says that his son's baseball success surprises him: "We expected him to get an education and to take care of himself in that way." Though accused of using steroids, McGwire says he hasn't, that his log tosser's body is the result...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: The Fun Is Back | 7/27/1998 | See Source »

When Gladys Knight decided to name her group, there were undoubtedly a few people who raised their eyebrows at the decision to call her backup singers the Pips. The same probably goes for Chubby Checker or the Fifth Dimension. But never have musical names been so bizarre as they are today...

Author: By Scott A. Resnick, | Title: POSTCARD FROM CONNECTICUT | 7/2/1998 | See Source »

...time, and what he has to put up with--media attention and people making demands of him and wanting him to be here, there and everywhere--he does a tremendous job. He's done a great thing with his image and really kept it pretty clean," says Bulls backup center Bill Wennington. "And he's so cute." Jordan is a vessel into which America can pour anything it wants. He's noble, charming, righteous and kind, not because he necessarily is but because we want him to be. And, yes, Bill, it helps that he's good looking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Basketball: The One And Only | 6/22/1998 | See Source »

...Springfield, N.J., has established himself at Wolfsburg in Germany's top league, along with teammate Chad Deering, 27, from Plano, Texas. Starting U.S. goalkeeper Kasey Keller, 28, from Lacey, Wash., minds the nets for England's Leicester City and is easily one of the world's top keepers. His backup, Brad Friedel, of Bay Village, Ohio, plays at Liverpool, one of England's most famous teams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Melting-Pot Team | 6/22/1998 | See Source »

...boot your system if all else fails. Also during setup you can save a copy of Windows 95. Do this in case you want to revert to your old operating system--a fallback if, say, your Win 98 disk is corrupted. Note, however, that the backup will consume 50 megabytes of space on your hard drive, which you'll want to reclaim later. (Windows 98 hogs 200 megabytes of space and likes an additional 100 megs for wiggle room.) Delete the old operating system by selecting "Add/Remove Programs" in your Control Panel, and remove the entry "Delete Windows 98 uninstall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cleaner Windows | 6/22/1998 | See Source »

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