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...scribes. With poor Hyde "in play," as we pundits say to justify piling on, I called Sommer to find out if he thought the world was a better place for having been informed about Hyde. He was too busy to talk; NBC was filming, CNN was in the on-deck circle, and print reporters were stacked up like jets at LaGuardia...
...internalized the pressure and turned it into motivation. He held press conferences before every road series. He started to smile at reporters. By the end, when the fans' flashbulbs made the park seem like it was being pelted by a summer lightning storm, he stood in the on-deck circle with his eyes closed, calmly absorbing the energy. Whereas the fans' abuse made Roger Maris lose his hair and hate the game, McGwire reacted to the irrational expectations with irrational exuberance...
...craze is only going to get wilder: last week Diamond Multimedia of San Jose, Calif., announced it will ship hardware next month that plays MP3 recordings. The $199 device, called Rio, is as small as a deck of cards and plugs into your PC, where you can fill it up with an hour's worth of tunes that you've downloaded. Then you can detach it and take it anywhere...
Mike (Matt Damon) is a gifted, honorable, high-stakes poker player trying to leave the game so he can finish law school. Worm (Edward Norton) is a gifted, dishonorable player given to dealing from the bottom of the deck. The mystery of Rounders is why a smart guy risks repute, not to mention life and limb, to help a dumb and self-destructive one. Still, if Rounders lacks the sardonically twisted plots and people of Dahl's best work (Red Rock West, The Last Seduction), it is, like them, well acted and atmospherically arresting. The director fails to fill this...
...beautifully simple idea. Since sperm bearing a Y chromosome (the one that creates little boys) contains nearly 3 percent less DNA than its female X chromosome counterpart, why not sort sperm by its genetic weight -- and stack the deck for couples who want to choose the sex of their child? Easier said than done, of course. But that's precisely the technique that a Fairfax, Va., fertility center is set to reveal Wednesday in the journal Human Reproduction. Based on the information released so far, this appears to be the most reliable gender-selection process ever developed...