Word: home
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Disaster strikes on the way home, just before we hit the city. By then we're so comfortable with Map 'n' Go that when a road sign clearly says Manhattan and the computer says something else, we forget to rely on our common sense. All of a sudden we're lost in the slums of the Bronx at 11 p.m. For the next 10 minutes the little green arrow mockingly charts our circular course...
DIED. MARK O'BRIEN, 49, author and poet; from complications of bronchitis; at his home in Berkeley, Calif. O'Brien, the subject of the Academy Award-winning documentary Breathing Lessons, wrote by typing with a stick in his mouth. He lived in a 650-lb. iron lung most of his life...
...pitch did not go well. Frazzled by my introduction, I bounced it in front of home plate and then, forgetting Goeke's advice to look happy if I messed up, made a facial expression that was far more Woody Allen than Kevin Costner. As local sports columnist Mike Hlas commented, "That was one bad throw. I know it's not as easy as it looks, but man." Even worse, Veronica Portillo, a girlfriend of one of the players, said, "You looked a little old for the first pitch. They're usually little kids." But her friend Shannon Kroll said, "Your...
...never expected that there would be organized softball for girls. Of course, there was a part of him that overworried about my infrastructure. Girls have babies, after all! When my brother got a detached retina playing tackle, my parents didn't blanch. One day I came home with a bloody nose, and I thought my father was going to pass...
...head of the Chamber, he has strongly opposed unilateral American trade sanctions against any country, including Cuba. The tough-talking lobbyist is pushing hard to meet with Cuban entrepreneurs and lay the basis for an independent Chamber of Commerce in Havana. Should he fail, Donohue could still fly home with a consolation prize: regulations allow him to re-enter the U.S. with a box of Cuban cigars as long as they cost no more than $100. Alas, he doesn't smoke...