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...Fifteen stories above the ground, Butterfly flips through mail from fans in Sausalito, Pensacola, Beaverton, and from a tree-sitter in Tasmania who calls himself Hector the Protector. "I've only had time to answer four letters today," she frets. Besides her cell phone, pager and walkie-talkie, Butterfly also has a radio and a solar-powered battery charger. She reads her poetry, written on the inside of Ronzoni pasta cartons, and tells of how one night El Nino's freezing rains and 40-m.p.h. winds nearly tore her off the 8-ft. by 8-ft. platform. "I thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Julia Hill, Butterfly: Five Months At 180 Ft. | 5/11/1998 | See Source »

However, when Hartford and Dartmouth tried it this week, they got a taste of Ferrucci at his best. Ferrucci exploded for fifteen points in the final two games of his career. Against Hartford, he had four goals and two assists playing just over half the game...

Author: By Owen Breck, | Title: ATHLETE OF THE WEEK | 5/6/1998 | See Source »

...Dear Fifteen Minutes...

Author: By Shara R. Kay, | Title: a table | 4/23/1998 | See Source »

...Crimson managed to keep it close for the first fifteen minutes. After Dartmouth built a 4-1 lead, the Crimson defense tightened, which allowed both sophomore attacker Ashley Birch and junior defender Claudio Asano to score and bring Harvard within a goal...

Author: By Mike Volonnino, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Lacrosse Bucked by Dartmouth | 4/23/1998 | See Source »

...Fifteen years ago, an extraordinary epiphany drew William Wylie Tomes Jr. to a series of Chicago housing projects, including Cabrini-Green. Since then, as a Roman Catholic lay worker, he has embraced the people of the projects as if they were family and tried to steer them off the path to an early grave. As a consequence, Brother Bill is perhaps the only outsider who can walk freely through the 15 buildings that make up Cabrini-Green or penetrate the paranoid, often vicious circle the gangsters have built around themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In The Line Of Fire | 4/20/1998 | See Source »

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