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DIED. JOHN MCSHERRY, 51, baseball umpire; of a heart attack; in Cincinnati, Ohio. After 25 years of keeping a cool head in a hot-tempered business, the 328-lb. McSherry collapsed two minutes into the season opener...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Apr. 15, 1996 | 4/15/1996 | See Source »

Also sent reeling was the archaic belief that women are somehow, uh, softer. During the second round, Gogarty caught the 135-lb. Martin flush on the nose, opening a spigot of blood. After the round, as cornermen tried to stop the flow, Jim asked Christy if she wanted to continue. "I was concerned because she's my wife first, my fighter second," he says. "She told me, 'Don't you dare stop this fight.'" Martin's persistence was rewarded not only with the decision, the cheers of the crowd and the W.B.C. women's championship belt, but also with what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPORT: BELLE OF THE BRAWL | 4/1/1996 | See Source »

Dirty Soccer was all-out war. Of course, a fourth-grader couldn't inflict the sort of damage that is within the capabilities of the 275-lb. hulks who go against each other in Ultimate Fighting, but it was not for lack of trying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIRTY LIKE IT OUGHT TO BE | 3/18/1996 | See Source »

...kitchen. But male cooking is not the everyday feeding of a household; it's a cameo, virtuoso performance in which every dish is used to produce an elaborate meal at midnight. Congratulations and a pass on cleaning up are expected--after all, he cooked! Men can prepare $20-per-lb. salmon in a $300 fish poacher, the cuisine equivalent of golf's Big Bertha, but tuna salad on whole wheat is beyond them. One avocational cook I know lit the grill, put a turkey on it and boasted during the half time of a Dallas Cowboys game that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WASHINGTON DIARY: NO SLEEP FOR THE WEARY | 3/11/1996 | See Source »

...allowing rockets to fly out, spewing fake sarin into the air. Inside the igloo, rockets kept detonating with dull thuds. A typical igloo contains 4,000 M-55s, each with a seven-mile range and 20 tons of sarin. (A pinpoint dose is enough to kill a 100-lb. person...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ROTTING ROCKETS | 2/12/1996 | See Source »

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