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...second best (that would be Edgar, Seattle). No, Timmy, that wasn't the year Reggie Jackson was on the team. And Mark McGwire played for somebody else. As did Sammy Sosa, Ken Griffey, Barry Bonds, Greg Maddux and Roger Clemens. Your best bet is to try to distract Timmy with candy. In the future, candy will be even better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Greatest Ever? | 11/2/1998 | See Source »

...maintains that goggles and oxygen masks are all that flight crews need to cope with cockpit-smoke emergencies, which occur at the rate of 40 to 50 a year on U.S. domestic flights. The agency says studies show that efforts to set up and activate EVAS-like devices could distract pilots from the task of controlling their planes. Many flight crews would disagree, according to John Mazor, a spokesman for the Air Line Pilots Association, which represents 50,000 commercial pilots. The EVAS, he says, "really works...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aircraft Safety: Blowing Smoke? | 9/28/1998 | See Source »

...Mandela was far enough from the crowd to distract the aim of a potential assassin...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Security for Mandela Was Tight But Stealthy | 9/21/1998 | See Source »

...control the defense industry, underscoring both his control and the growing role of the armed forces. Meanwhile, the meet-and-greet functions he so dislikes have been palmed off to the chairman of the Presidium. Marking the milestone with a nifty new missile could be a way to distract a country on its knees: famine has killed an estimated 2 million people in North Korea since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Missile With A Message | 9/14/1998 | See Source »

...save. "Why?" he pursued. "Uh, because I like to read." Oh, I realized, that was not the right answer. What was anyway? Handy Man was becoming anxious, wondering where my mother was so he could finish and go home. I needed to keep the conversation going and distract him so he didn't just up and leave. It really was a challenge though because Sexy is as intelligent as the garage door he is waiting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POSTCARD FROM NEW ROCHELLE | 8/14/1998 | See Source »

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