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...Knicks on the other hand swept away Vince Carter and his Toronto Raptors on their way to a fourth consecutive playoff series meeting with the Miami Heat. Latrell Sprewell, the "American Dream," dominated the next Michael Jordan both on the offensive and defensive ends, hitting clutch shots at the end of Games 1 and 2 while Carter instead preferred to pass the rock to teammates like Dee Brown at crucial moments. Assuming the Knicks maintain their playoff advantage over the Heat, there is little doubt that they can put away either the old Pacers or the inexperienced Sixers...
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...entry of Ali (a.k.a. Madame Butterfly) and Frazier-Lyde (Sister Smoke) into the pros--followed by declarations from progeny of other famed pugilists, including the daughters of Roberto Duran and George Foreman--has brought a wave of visibility, and renewed heat, to women's boxing. This week in Kenner, La., J'Marie Moore, 39, the daughter of former light-heavyweight champ Archie Moore, will box on the first all-women's card to be shown live over the Internet. Next up will be Freeda Foreman, George's 23-year-old daughter. While a virus forced Foreman to postpone...
...gather in Washington and Hong Kong to countless individuals ready to join in via the Internet. The theme is finding solutions to global warming: cars will be banned from some streets in Rome; Mexico City will send 30,000 students out to plant seedlings (new trees soak up heat-trapping carbon dioxide); and the Earth Day Energy Fast campaign, based in Los Angeles, will urge folks to shut off appliances for 24 hours. For a rundown on events, visit www.earthday.net But saving the planet obviously isn't a one-day proposition. Here's a sampling of how grass-roots groups...
...Four billion of the planet's 6 billion people face deprivation inconceivable to the wealthiest 1 billion. To paraphrase Thomas Jefferson, nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that the bottom two-thirds of humanity will strive to improve their lot. As they demand adequate heat and food, not to mention cars and CD players, humanity's environmental footprint will grow. Our challenge is to accommodate this mass ascent from poverty without wrecking the natural systems that make life possible...