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...senior circuit the Braves, stifled in their last two trips to the Fall Classic, looked to the likes of Chipper Jones and Mike Mordecai to provide some positive October memories...
...sweetbreads. "I found them the most interesting part of the cow's anatomy," he recalls. "They were visually pleasing--lots of folds, convolutions and patterns. The cerebellum was more interesting to look at than steak." The butchers' son became a neuroscientist, and it was he who discovered the short circuit in the brain that lets emotions drive action before the intellect gets a chance to intervene...
...Middle Ages. What's next, the Inquisition?" and on the back "Think this is a circus? You're right. But blame the seven Supreme Court jesters." Kevorkian shed the signs before entering the courthouse, where he stood silent as he was arraigned on two counts of assisting suicide. Circuit Judge David Breck entered an innocent plea on his behalf. Kevorkian has been the symbol for the "right-to-die" movement, but Gibbs points out that many are troubled by the 67-year old former pathologist. Says Gibbs: "Even people who are sympathetic to the issue have problems with Kevorkian because...
...weeks ago, when the double-murder trial began, there was no dispute as to what happened that night at the lake. But the jury was given two very different portrayals of Smith. The prosecution, led by 16th Circuit solicitor Thomas Pope, 32, painted Smith as a calculating, cold-hearted woman who drowned her children to win the affections of Tom Findlay, the son of the owner of the textile plant where she worked as a secretary. In his opening statement, assistant solicitor Keith Giese said, "For nine days in the fall of 1994, Susan Smith looked this country...
What about American pride? "The only downside is the sentimental loss," says David Lachenbruch, editorial director of New York-based Television Digest. "But this is a worldwide market. People don't know where their TV sets come from. Their picture tube may come from the U.S., the circuit board may be from Malaysia, the transistors may come from Japan, and the set may have been assembled in Mexico. Consumers won't notice much difference from this deal." They're probably too spaced out by that Zenith invention, the remote control...