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Well, maybe not quite. But allow a baby boomer his memories. (To be honest, I probably didn't call them fat cats either.) And allow Hair--or so even some professed fans of the show have pleaded--to remain in the mists of '60s nostalgia. After a flop 1977 Broadway revival and a not-much-more-successful 1979 movie version directed by Milos Forman, the feeling seemed to harden that the Age of Aquarius was over and trying to bring it back would look hopelessly out of touch, even silly, in this cynical new millennium...
What advice would you give Brett Favre on his current retirement flip-flop? -Nathan Henneka, Salt Lake City
Favre, 38, is certainly not the first athlete to flip-flop on bidding farewell to his game. Pitcher Roger Clemens, the king of comebacks, has retired a total of three times. Lance Armstrong left cycling in 1996 to battle cancer and returned to win seven consecutive Tour de France titles. Other stars have re-emerged to save a struggling franchise, like Michael Jordan, who proclaimed his 1995 return to the Chicago Bulls after a failed bid at pro baseball with a two-word press release: "I'm back." The deathless Rocky franchise aside, the "sweet science" seems to specialize...
...community tackles HIV/AIDS - and save thousands of lives in the process. The Centers for Disease Control advocated routine widespread testing in 2003 and again in 2006, but so far it hasn't paid dividends. Washington, D.C., attempted to test 450,000 residents in 2006, but the initiative was a flop, reportedly meeting only about 10% of that target. New York's prospects for success may be brighter, partly because New York's health commissioner, Dr. Thomas Frieden, is one of the most effective in the country: under Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Frieden has successfully implemented citywide bans on smoking in bars...
...statements were seen as a blunder at best and a flip-flop at worst...