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Either SHERYL SWOOPES really loves to play basketball or the W.N.B.A. has lousy maternity leave. Six weeks after bringing forth a 7-lb. 9-oz. son, Jordan (named after Michael, natch), the Olympic gold medalist was patrolling the court, and getting past Phoenix Mercury's MIKIKO HAGIWARA for the Houston Comets. "The five minutes I played felt more like 15 or 20," she says, "but I'm amazed at myself. I'm not as far away from where I want to be as I thought." Swoopes, one of the best female players in the game...
...back of the serpent Ananta, afloat on the primordial ocean. It was found by French archaeologists 60 years ago in the western baray (reservoir) of Angkor--a man-made lake five miles long--and despite its corroded and battered state, its missing eyebrows and moustache (which would have been gold), its empty eyes, it radiates an extraordinary sculptural power amounting to magnetism...
GOING FOR GOLD...
...your item on the decline in the price of gold [BUSINESS, July 28], only part of my statement on investing in gold was reported. As a result, my position might be misunderstood. My complete statement was, "If the return on gold (price increase plus loan fee) is not the same as the return on other investments, there's no point to holding it." DALE HENDERSON, Associate Director Federal Reserve Board Washington...
...strained the credibility of the average American in the late 1950s and '60s. He lived lavishly and consumed conspicuously: he owned Rolls-Royces, Ferraris and Stutz Blackhawks; bought a 96-passenger Convair 880 jet for $250,000, then spent $800,000 to have it customized, a project that included gold-plated seat-belt buckles and a queen-size bed. He once took a $16,000 flight to Denver to buy peanut-butter sandwiches...