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...Bulls ride the momentum of the boisterous chicago crowd to a 58-23 halftime lead. The Knicks look pathetic. Starks' shooting has been way off, Allan Houston has been non-existent and both Oakley and Ewing are in foul trouble...

Author: By Jamal K. Greene, | Title: A Dying Knicks Fans' Last Request | 3/19/1997 | See Source »

...star potential. The opening of the 12-screen Magic Theatre movie complex next to the flagging Greenbriar Mall in predominantly black southwest Atlanta is the latest deal to establish the former hoop sorcerer as a force in inner-city economic development. Magic movie marquees are going up in Houston and Cleveland, Ohio, and Johnson has announced plans for 14 new multiplexes in 10 other cities over the next two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POST-GAME SHOW | 3/17/1997 | See Source »

Speculation reached a fever pitch last November when Chuck Shramek, an amateur astronomer based in Houston, Texas, announced on a nationwide radio talk show that he had photographed a "Saturn-like object" that seemed to be following in Hale-Bopp's wake. Shramek's breathless claim elevated Hale-Bopp fantasies from supermarket tabloids to the mainstream press and generated thousands of posts to message boards and astronomy home pages on the Internet. One fast-spreading rumor had it that the object was an alien spacecraft four times the size of Earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRAZY ABOUT COMETS | 3/17/1997 | See Source »

There's something pure about the college game; it's so unpredictable and exciting. Remember Jim Valvano running around the court in 1983 looking for someone to hug after his N.C. State team upset Houston? Remember Princeton shocking the nation by beating the defending champion UCLA last year...

Author: By Bryan Lee, | Title: Kansas Over Kentucky | 3/11/1997 | See Source »

Enron is also running up its own electric bill: the Houston company is paying $3.2 billion to acquire Oregon's Portland General Electric Co. in a deal that will give Enron access to low-cost hydroelectric power, 650,000 customers and an opportunity to go to school on retail operations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER TO THE PEOPLE | 3/10/1997 | See Source »

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