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Christie's start was reportedly 0.086 seconds, and a red flag was placed at his block signaling his disqualification...
Upon discovering that he was the false starter, Christie was astonished and removed the red flag from his block, refusing to leave the lane of his last major track event...
...fashion show (grass skirts and blazers), part geography lesson (the Comoros?), part expression that all is forgiven (Saddam Hussein's son heads the tiny Iraqi delegation). The parade lasted far longer than expected, but finally the U.S. delegation came out, led by 286-lb. wrestler Bruce Baumgartner, who made flag carrying look ridiculously easy, and trailed by Shaquille O'Neal, whose new $121 million contract with the Los Angeles Lakers wasn't exactly what Baron de Coubertin had in mind...
...Indeed, the ceremonies went by in a flash: the remarks by Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games president Billy Payne and International Olympic Committee president Juan Antonio Samaranch ("Atlanta, here we are!"), the proclamation ("I declare open the Games of Atlanta!") by President Clinton, the entrance of the Olympic flag, a tribute to Atlanta's Rev. Martin Luther King, the introduction of past Olympians...
...monitor the hazards adequately without new regulations. "Most people are certainly already aware of the potential for interaction between two or more prescription drugs," says TIME's Alice Park. "Physicians and pharmacists are also aware of such conflicts, and have the education and computer systems which can red-flag troubling prescriptions. I'm not sure patients need to be targeted with this ination." Trouble is, many of them are not keeping their doctors or pharmacists informed about all of the medicines they are taking. -- Terence Nelan