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...enough to snap a player's bones, rip ligaments and wreck joints. So it's not surprising that nearly 500 N.F.L. players have been injured seriously enough to miss a game so far this season. What's perhaps more surprising is that there aren't more accidents like Dennis Byrd's. In the previous 15 years, only two pro players have suffered permanent spinal-cord injuries. (Diving holds the dubious distinction of being the most backbreaking sport...
...Reich-Clinton plan would also throw billions of dollars at new public- works projects without persuasively describing how it would keep the money from being wasted by lawmakers such as Senate Appropriations chairman Robert Byrd, who has made it his mission in life to pave his home state of West Virginia with federal office buildings and roads. Reich holds that "there is nothing wrong with being indebted so long as the borrowings are invested in means of enhancing our future wealth." But he agrees that some way must be found to "guard against pork-barrel spending...
...competition is just heating up for boxers Chris Byrd and Oscar de La Hoya, who are guaranteed at least bronze, although two more victories would giveeach the gold. Boxing awards two bronze medals...
...Byrd won a one-sided decision over AlgerianAhmed Dine; De La Hoya overcame some shaky scoringto defeat Bulgaria's Dimitrov Tontchev...
Country is also benefiting from the determined eclecticism of the twentysomething generation. At a Nashville concert by country hunk Alan Jackson, Brandi Byrd, 19, arrived with her hair teased into a punk sculpture, wearing a replica of an artfully threadbare Aerosmith outfit. At home she puts her Jackson and Brooks tapes alongside the work of groups like Whitesnake, Poison and Motley Crue. Says Julie Hall, a 23-year-old clerk at TNN: "I'm just as likely to buy the Black Crowes as I am to buy a Travis Tritt tape. I like good music. I don't care what...