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...facilitating the marriage of nearly 4,000 gay couples in his city last year, Gavin Newsom is famous countrywide--and controversial. But at home in San Francisco, the mayor is simply adored. It's the main reason Newsom, 37, who barely squeaked into office in 2003, now enjoys an eye-popping 80% approval rating in America's ultraliberal gay mecca. But it is by no means the only factor. The workaholic millionaire restaurateur has packed more productivity into his first 15 months than many mayors manage in two terms. By diverting welfare payments for the homeless into a housing fund...
Then a glint of light catches the eye: a javelin, thrown by one of the women in the heptathlon competition. It arcs down into the sod: 120 ft. and change. The distance is not impressive. "Wait for Jackie," someone says. Jackie Joyner, silver medalist at the Los Angeles Olympics last summer, has won the first five heptathlon events here at the U.S. Olympic Committee's National Sports Festival meet. She appears at the beginning of the javelin run-in, holds her spear head-high, level with the ground, and flows into the unmistakable prancing, straight-backed run that must have...
...example, is Mark Telthorster, 32, a team handball goalie from Columbus, watching two women's teams play the violent and, in the U.S., wholly unappreciated game that has captured his imagination. A fast and not very subtle cross between basketball and soccer, it looks wrong to the basketball-educated eye, explains Telthorster, who hopes to coach the sport professionally, because you may take three full steps before and after dribbling. And, yes--here three or four bodies splat together and hit the floor--because very aggressive body checking is permitted. "Awright, way to deck her, Sandra!" yells...
China is the world's biggest exporter of fake goods, from pirated DVDs to knock-off Birkin bags. Add truffles to the list. To the naked eye, the Chinese black truffle, or Tuber indicum, looks virtually indistinguishable from its much vaunted European cousin, Tuber melanosporum, a gastronomic delicacy that perks up winter menus with its earthy pungency. One taste, though, clears up any confusion. The Chinese variety is insipid when compared with the one found in France, Italy and Spain. Yet over the past few years, unscrupulous dealers in Europe and the U.S. have begun passing off the Chinese truffles...
...therefore, about baseball-and, therefore again, about steroids. Everything about baseball is about steroids right now. My take is: I'm very glad the secret is out, and I hope things change. I can't understand how Mark McGwire was able to look the Maris brothers in the eye back when he was hitting 70, never mind pose with them, smiling. But then, I didn't understand it at the time-knowing what everyone in the sporting press already knew (but couldn't print without proof). I thought the Congressional hearings were just showboating as they loomed, but then found...