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With Tiger Woods mania driving every kid to pick up a set of clubs and hit the links, what better time to take a whack at golf stocks. That's the pitch for a new golf fund, due out this fall, that will invest in equipment, apparel makers and course developers. But before you pull a Big Bertha from your wallet, remember that Asia's woes have been a drag on industry stars like Callaway Golf and Family Golf Centers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Money: Aug. 31, 1998 | 8/31/1998 | See Source »

...immediate information that software, print maps and even GPS devices lack. At weather.com for instance, you get a forecast for your projected route. (My favorite among these kinds of sites is Intellicast's Golfcast, which has among its many real-time forecasts weather maps that show "hazardous" conditions at golf courses.) At www.freetrip.com you can request a list of motels, restaurants, tourist traps and even military facilities en route. Note to inventors: what we really need is an affordable satellite link to the Web. That might even keep the back seat entertained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Free Maps Online | 8/17/1998 | See Source »

...Mercury capsule. Presumably Ham, with his evolutionary advantage, had a richer experience in space than the astronaut dog. When America at last committed a human life to the venture, Shepard advanced the space program by an evolutionary quantum leap. He lived to become more famous still by playing golf on the moon during his Apollo 14 expedition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moon and the Clones | 8/3/1998 | See Source »

...heard as much about him as about the sluggers? The two questions are related. Off the field, Maddux doesn't cavort with celebrities or even do endorsements. "I could be more Hollywood," he told TIME before a game last week, "but that ain't me." His family, golf and Nintendo are more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greg Maddux: Gentle Tamer Of The Brutes | 7/27/1998 | See Source »

...course, while he was up there he also hit a couple of golf balls, and perhaps that's the way Americans who watched it will remember him. But Kluger says that Shepard was known as "the ice commander" for good reason. "He was either all business or he was this genial swashbuckling rocket jock, and he would switch back and forth without warning, according to his own internal clock." Whatever foibles this space pioneer carried inside him, they never poisoned the camaraderie among the original seven Mercury astronauts named by NASA in April 1959. Not too long ago, says Kluger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alan Shepard, 1923-1998 | 7/22/1998 | See Source »

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