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...gift-from-the-gods talent to hit and throw a baseball better than anyone else in the world. No one in his right mind would spend a beautiful August Saturday in the bleachers at Wrigley Field cheering 27 men in suits -- plus the mercurial Marge Schott of the Cincinnati Reds -- as they bicker over revenue sharing. But put Ken Griffey or Barry Bonds or Frank Thomas in a Motel Six parking lot in North Dakota with a bat and ball, and fans will flock. Maybe Greg Maddux or Jimmy Key will show up to do the pitching. That...
...would bob his head, root and try to latch on, but he wasn't getting anywhere," she recalls. "Everybody kept saying, 'Don't worry. Don't worry."' It was bad advice. When the infant was 12 days old, his parents rushed him to Children's Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio. His breathing was shallow; his eyes had rolled back. "I was frantic because I could see he was withering," she recalls. Doctors found the child's weight had slipped below 5 lbs. Their diagnosis: severe dehydration. Bradley was starving. A few days later, he suffered a stroke. Just how much damage...
...than in the past because shorter hospital stays for new mothers make it harder to train them in the techniques of breast-feeding and harder to identify problems. "We aren't able to intervene in day two or three of life," says Dr. Michael Farrell, chief of staff at Cincinnati's Children's Hospital. Most American women now leave the hospital within 36 hours of giving birth and don't see a pediatrician until a week later -- often too late to forestall severe dehydration and other problems...
...when pitchers are surrendering more than five runs a game, Gregg Maddux's stingy 1.69 earned-run average for Atlanta could be one of the great feats in the sport's history. Even the players, who strongly support their union, realize that there is history in the making. Says Cincinnati pitcher Jose Rijo: "I want to see guys of our generation with a chance to break records." That won't happen if the 162-game season is aborted by a strike...
Ailing workers at an Ohio nuclear weapons plant won a $20 million settlement from the Energy Department, signaling that the government might yield in future cases at 16 other plants around the country. About 4,000 workers at the Fernald nuclear weapons plant north of Cincinnati filed a class action suit in 1990, alleging that many of them contracted cancer or leukemia because of exposure to radioactive material between 1952 and 1985.ANOTHER TRADE CENTER BOMBER? Just when the mystery behind the World Trade Center bombing seemed wrapped up, Canadian authorities detained another man wanted for FBI questioning. Charles Lee Knox...