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...front. Despite his lead, Armstrong must perform well and avoid accidents on this week's climb through the Pyrenees before he can claim victory in Paris next Sunday. But the outcome almost doesn't matter. With his miraculous recovery, his return to top-level cycling--and the expected birth of his first child in October--Armstrong doesn't need a trophy to prove he's a winner...
...delivery. With the inexpensive and commonly used antiviral drug nevirapine, however, only about 13% of newborns become infected. That's better than a short course of costly AZT and requires just one pill for the mother during labor and a few drops for the baby within three days of birth. It should be a boon to the Third World, where mother-infant transmissions keep AIDS rampant...
...things you wanted since you were wearing glitter badges." The chorus sounds a critique of both musical and artistic minimalism, cold and synthetic: "Monochrome in the 1990s, you go disco and I'll go my way." Yet with Murdoch born in 1968, David in '69 and other members with birth dates scattered through the early '70s, one wonders whether both Belle and Sebastian were dreaming of glitter badges growing...
Rumors that Stevenson's birth father was a famous athlete had swirled for years in California, where she played junior tennis and attended La Jolla Country Day School. Dark-complexioned Alexandra, 6 ft. 1 in and powerfully built, had shrugged off the talk, commenting only that her Caucasian mother had played both parental roles. That pat answer might once have been enough, but her run at Wimbledon renewed the speculation. Last week a Florida newspaper published a birth certificate listing her father as Julius Winfield Erving II. That's basketball legend Dr. J, the dignified, eloquent superstar whose spectacular play...
...comes the fifth and, its publisher promises, "last" of Papa's posthumous performances: True at First Light (Scribner; 320 pages; $26). This so-called fictional memoir will officially appear on July 21, the 100th anniversary of Hemingway's birth...