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...team which will emerge from the American League is Cleveland. Remember how Seattle almost beat them in 1995? A similar thing will happen in their epic seven-game series. Ken Griffey, Jr., will drop a routine fly ball in the ninth inning of the decisive game. Phil Knight weeps bitter tears...

Author: By Bryan S.lee, | Title: Spring Has Sprung, So Let There Be Baseball | 3/31/1997 | See Source »

...government and the drug companies to act, doctors and nurses have developed ingenious tricks to dilute adult-strength AIDS drugs and get them into kids. In some cases they chop up the capsules and mix the medication with applesauce or baby formula. But mashed up protease inhibitors taste so bitter that most kids just spit them out. So doctors are teaching children as young as 2 how to swallow the intact capsules...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHAT ABOUT THE KIDS? | 3/31/1997 | See Source »

...would have predicted--a rage for the jig. As star of the two-year-old, 85-member Riverdance, the traveling Gaelic dance show, Flatley hopped, stepped and high-kicked to exultant houses in London and Dublin. When he parted ways with the company in October 1995 over a bitter, and still unresolved, creative dispute, he fashioned Lord of the Dance, a glitzier rival extravaganza showcasing his talents and the updated, freer-form manner of Irish dance he helped pioneer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DANCE: MR. BIG OF THE NEW JIG | 3/31/1997 | See Source »

What truly distinguishes Minnesota isn't majorness or hipness but a sweetness of character that perhaps is brought out by bitter weather and sensory deprivation, and that you can't show off to outsiders because the moment you do, it's gone. This is a state of people not so far removed from the farm, and farming is a civil business that believes in sharing new information and helping your neighbor. It produces good-hearted people who are tolerant, helpful and friendly. Farming is why the narcissism quotient is low here, and people avoid stupidity when possible, not wanting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWEET HOME, MINNESOTA | 3/24/1997 | See Source »

Although there are officially no suspects in Shakur's murder, police say they have identified a member of the Crips gang who they believe is responsible. Because Death Row has links to the Bloods street gang--bitter rivals of the Crips--and because Bad Boy rappers had hired Crips as bodyguards during their West Coast visits, some observers speculate that the Wallace murder involved revenge by the Bloods on behalf of Shakur. But sources tell TIME that the L.A.P.D. is focusing its investigation on the same group of Crips that Bad Boy used as bodyguards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RHYME OR REASON? | 3/24/1997 | See Source »

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