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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 18, 1997 | 8/18/1997 | See Source »

...best presents--or so I thought. Then, just last year, my daughter told me that she had gone to Woolworth's for the lipsticks and perfume, jewelry and other adornments that so entice the teenage heart. Thanks for the memories, Woolworth's. Truly, an era has ended. JENNY HOUSTON Fairfax, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 18, 1997 | 8/18/1997 | See Source »

Call New York information from Houston, for example, and ask for the New York Stock Exchange. No listing. Nope. Or call Dallas--Irving, to be precise, home of the Dallas Cowboys--and ask for the number of Da'Boys. No listing. You provide the address--1 Cowboys Parkway--and are finally given a number, which produces only the screech of the no-such-number signal. The list goes on: no number for state representatives' offices in New England, or for the Mayflower hotel in Washington, D.C. One operator, when asked for a number in Des Moines, informed the caller that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIRECTORY RESISTANCE | 8/11/1997 | See Source »

There are no bad places to stump. So 1998 Republican Alabama Governor hopeful and Houston Rocket forward Charles Barkley, on trial last week for punching a guy in a bar (he won the case), used his time on the stand for gubernatorial trash talk. Among Sir Charles' policy statements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forward Spin: Aug. 11, 1997 | 8/11/1997 | See Source »

...Whitney Houston can do it, why can't MARIAH CAREY? The diva of deep record sales is dipping her toes into the waters of acting. The video for her new song, Honey, which debuts this week, opens with a comedy sketch, after which she scampers around like a Bond girl (read: lots of changes into different, but equally skimpy, outfits). She's also in discussions about doing a movie. "It's a great way to release different creative energy," Carey says of acting. Her music is also changing--away from touchy-feely ballads to more collaborations with hip-hop artists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 4, 1997 | 8/4/1997 | See Source »

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