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...first half], his timing was way off, his idea of spacing was way off, but to his credit, he didn’t get discouraged,” Sullivan said. “In the second half he felt confident he could score in the low post, and he certainly made some big baskets...
...Steelers turn things around? Roethlisberger deserves a lot of the credit. After starter Tommy Maddox tore a tendon early in the season, Cowher entrusted the team to the rookie, who had played three years at the other Miami University in the other Oxford (Ohio). Roethlisberger responded by leading the Steelers to back-to-back home victories against the then undefeated Patriots and Eagles, and he hasn't lost since. Cowboys coach Bill Parcells, who dishes out compliments about as often as Don Rickles, has called Roethlisberger the most impressive rookie quarterback since Dan Marino...
...Bush pointed out that the U.S. provided 40% of the world's total disaster-relief funds last year, but even Republicans sighed at the Bush team's contortions. "The attitude problem is huge," says a Bush adviser. "We will probably give a lot of money and get no credit." The U.S.'s increased contribution of $350 million still wasn't enough to make it the world's most generous donor. Japan earned that designation by pledging $500 million...
...stir generated among climatologists by the AO makes Thompson, an atmospheric scientist at Colorado State University, a tad uncomfortable. "I guess I have a humble tendency," he says, noting that in science, credit seldom belongs to one person alone. Thompson is broadening his focus to include other components of the climate system, notably the AO-like Antarctic Oscillation, whose behavior, he thinks, has been profoundly influenced by the leakage into the stratosphere of man-made compounds that destroy the ozone. Result: wind patterns are keeping the white continent's interior bitterly cold while allowing the outlying peninsula to warm...
...best??hitter, left fielder Barry Bonds, is an exceptional athlete with a legendary training regimen, strict diet and unequaled discipline at bat. Steroids may pump you up, but they won't help you bat .362 or hit homers more often than you strike out. Commentators who try to credit steroids for Bonds' success are doing a disservice to America's youth by implying that drugs--not talent, hard work and discipline--are what make athletes great...