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...Brien the chance to make a clean break with the past imperfect begins next week in Atlanta on July 31, the first of the decathlon's grueling two days. It is an irony of Olympic fever that one can be, like O'Brien, a three-time world champion and the world record holder in an event and yet, minus that gold, still be only an athlete-in-waiting. But while it is unwise to be too cocksure, O'Brien, who turned 30 last week, is primed. He not only expects the gold but says, "I want to do it right...
...other crisis had been percolating for some time. The President's three democratic opponents had long talked of coalescing behind one or the other of them, and the speculation reached a fever pitch at the beginning of May. Had "they managed that," says Gorton, "it could really have killed us." A good deal of time was devoted to strategizing about how Yeltsin could stop the so-called "third force" from emerging. The two key third-force players were Grigori Yavlinsky, the leading democrat in the race, and the war hero Alexander Lebed. The team advised Yeltsin to woo his opponents...
...corporate clients. The ties between the two institutions run deep, and later this month Wired Ventures Ltd.--several of whose chief stockholders are GBN partners--plans a public stock offering. If all goes well, Wired and GBN insiders stand to be handsomely enriched by the very high-tech fever they've helped spark. "We have business ties, intellectual ties and friendship ties," says GBN founder Peter Schwartz of his friends at Wired. "Now I hope we'll cash...
...DENGUE FEVER. The coastal mountain ranges of Costa Rica had long confined dengue fever, a mosquito-borne disease accompanied by incapacitating bone pain, to the country's Pacific shore. But in 1995 rising temperatures allowed Aedes aegypti mosquitoes to breach the coastal barrier and invade the rest of the country. Dengue also advanced elsewhere in Latin America, reaching as far north as the Texas border. By September the epidemic had killed 4,000 of the 140,000 people infected...
Like most sci-fi movies, ID4 is a sensation machine. You leave saying "Wow!" instead of a speculative "Hmmm." These days the real head scratchers are on TV; there you'll find the genre's cool, metallic intellect touched by the fever of despair. The X-Files' twin mantras--"The truth is out there" and "Trust no one"--are the ideal ingredients for a sci-fi cocktail with a '90s twist. The paranormal and the paranoiac have joined hands through a pop-cultural wormhole; they meet and multiply. It's not so much science as psychic or psychoanalytic fiction...