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...regrets. Greenspan had told the House panel that he had begun to worry about the economy eight or nine months ago, which of course was two months before he actually stepped in to start cutting rates Jan. 3. Under heavy fire from new Senate Banking chairman Paul Sarbanes (D-Md.) over that lag, Greenspan copped to a slip of the calendar. "Let me amend my remarks from last week," he said, smiling - he'd meant to say December...
...bustle of the rushing crowds aren't a problem. "You become peaceful and tranquil inside," says Nunez. It's different for the three or four doctors who do their exercises from 5:30 to 7:30 a.m. near the library of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. All they hear are birds chirping. Steven Reani does his exercises in the early morning near a deserted shopping mall--except on the weekends when he does them on the vast green lawn in front of the Capitol, where dozens of Falun Gong practitioners assemble...
RETIRING. CAL RIPKEN, 40, Baltimore Orioles infielder who chased down Lou Gehrig's "unbreakable" record of 2,130 consecutive games played, setting a new record of 2,632 before voluntarily ending his streak on Sept. 20, 1998; in Baltimore, Md. After 20 years of modest and steady service, Ripken, now batting .209, will bow out at the end of the season...
Precollege drinking is especially worrisome given a central finding of recent alcohol research. Dr. Hoover Adger, professor and pediatrician at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md., has found that children who start drinking before age 15 are five times more likely to be alcohol dependent as adults. According to other studies, kids who start drinking early are also 10 times likelier to be involved in a fight after consuming alcohol, seven times likelier to be involved in a car accident and 12 times likelier to be injured. "Clearly, there is a huge benefit to delaying the first drink," says Adger...
DIED. JOE MOAKLEY, 74, a 15-term Democratic Congressman from Massachusetts; of leukemia; in Bethesda, Md. South Boston-born and--bred, Moakley often fought for federal funds on behalf of his hometown, cleaning up Boston Harbor and rerouting a major city highway. In 1989 he headed an investigation into the deaths of six Jesuit priests and their companions in El Salvador, a probe that helped end U.S. military aid to that country...