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...biggest story in sports this year is that of hockey's Mario Lemieux. His return in December from three years of retirement was impressive. His performance since has been downright inhuman. Still, I couldn't help but feel a bit uncomfortable when they lowered his No. 66 from the rafters. His first retirement capped a brilliant career, including a storybook comeback from Hodgkin's disease. Lemieux's reappearance, though pleasant, seems to detract from the glory of his initial ride into the sunset...
...DOWNRIGHT VICIOUS Glass desktops broken Slashed telephone and computer lines...
...DOWNRIGHT VICIOUS Notes in desk drawers reading, "We'll be back...
...blame them? There was, after all, a new drug "cocktail" in town, and with assiduous self-medication, HIV-positive patients could now live virtually symptom-free for years. Everyone who could afford it was shoveling back the expensive combinations of drugs, and the side effects ranged from unpleasant to downright awful. But it sure as heck beat AIDS...
...January, compared with 128.6 the previous month. The index has lost more than 28 points since September and is now at its lowest level since December 1996. And the expectations index, measuring what the survey's 5,000 families see coming in the next six months, was downright apocalyptic, plummeting to 77 in January from 96.9 the prior month, and is now at its lowest level since October 1993. People see fewer jobs, lower investment profits, and less reason to buy anything...