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...Glenn his long-sought means of getting back to the extra-world that made him. What was a usable scientific rationale for him became a new way to understand space for others. If the young temporarily grow old out there, then space is for the ageless, and the old hero becomes a distinct possibility...
...hero! What an idea! Not an older person who was formerly great, like a De Gaulle or a DiMaggio or a Golda Meir, but an active hero in old age. Fiction gives us such characters from time to time, but reality is too real. The flesh-and-blood old hero may need a special logic to return to the field of conquest. Try this on for size: So much of space exists in the past (dead stars shine). Why shouldn't someone be able to retrieve the past in the future and be young again by being...
...Atlanta Olympic Games, Irish swimmer MICHELLE SMITH DE BRUIN won three gold medals and became a national hero, brushing aside poolside murmurs that her sudden triumph at the advanced age of 26 might be drug aided. But last week, citing a surprise urine test, the international governing organization for swimmers, FINA, banned De Bruin for four years, effectively ending her career. The tests found no steroids but did detect "unequivocal signs of adulteration" that would mask the drugs, by means of an after-the-fact addition of alcohol, probably whisky. De Bruin, promising "I'm not going to crawl under...
...Arafat's failure to remove three of her colleagues accused of corruption last year, Mikhail-Ashrawi, a former literature professor, was also offended that Arafat did not consult her before switching her from the Ministry of Higher Education to the Tourism portfolio. By quitting, Mikhail-Ashrawi has become a hero to a public fed up with the malfeasance rampant in Arafat's administration. Her office and home have been deluged with phone calls from well wishers. "They say, 'You're the only man in the Cabinet,'" reports Mikhail-Ashrawi, who was in fact one of only two women. A source...
...cast, but anyone who thinks it is just another ethnic sitcom featuring bawdiness and near minstrelsy is in for a surprise. Produced by Tim Reid, who created the esteemed but short-lived Frank's Place, this show aims high, taking up issues of race, politics and sexual orientation. The hero, played by Steven Williams, is a black Republican who owns a bar in a rundown but gentrifying neighborhood of Washington. His regular customers include a natty lobbyist, a prostitute, an African cab driver and, the only white, an aide to a decrepit Southern Senator. Pam Grier plays the smart, attractive...