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Instead, they wound up in an unlit section of Ophelia Bonner Park. The park was once a well-kept, bustling playground before Jefferson Elementary School was closed a few years back. The city stopped maintaining the park, and it became a jungle of trees and debris. "You could lay down in the weeds and nobody would ever have seen you, the grass was so high," says Kenneth Hairston, 38, who lives next to the park. "It's a shame somebody had to die there before the city thought about cleaning...
...eager to make love than war. The marriage of Northeastern neighbors NYNEX (1996 revenues: $13.5 billion) and Bell Atlantic ($13.1 billion) awaits final government approval, while Southwestern titan SBC Communications has hooked up with Pacific Bell in California to create a $23.5 billion MegaBell. And in perhaps the worst-kept secret in Big Business history, AT&T ($52.2 billion) tried to buy the bulked-up SBC in a deal that went dead last month over disagreements between the companies and the hostility of regulators...
...walkout has kept supplies lean and prices strong despite a flood of metal from foreign firms and new mini-mills. Without Wheeling's 2.5 million tons of annual output, giants like the U.S. Steel Group of USX have been coming up with their best earnings gains in years. At U.S. Steel, profits nearly doubled in the first quarter...
...spilling as well, the crew hurriedly sealed off Spektr, site of Foale's racks of experiments and his living quarters--disconnecting the cables from solar panels that provide nearly 40% of Mir's power. To ration electricity, the crew shut off Mir's stabilizing gyrodynes for several days and kept the ship from spinning out of control by firing its thrusters manually...
...desire that he prove the worth of Japanese baseball. The American media wanted a good show, but they also didn't want to see the insufferable George Steinbrenner have the last laugh. The hours before the game were filled with several angry confrontations between sportswriters and Yankee officials, who kept the clubhouse closed at Steinbrenner's command. The owner, not choosing his words carefully enough, said, "I'm just trying to give the players a little asylum down there...