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...know, of course, how this great story finally ended. That is told in a series of place names that have become part of the language: Bataan, Midway, Guadalcanal, Stalingrad, El Alamein, Anzio, Omaha Beach, Bastogne, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Hiroshima. In retrospect, it all seems to have a kind of inevitability, and yet there lingers over each battlefield a faint question. What if rains in Poland had mired the German tanks in mud? What if the French army had then attacked? What...
...Foreman keeps mowing them down. At Pride Pavillion in Phoenix last month, Slab-of-Meat No. 18, a cruiserweight named Bert Cooper, was served up. A Joe Frazier protege, Cooper was billed as one of Foreman's toughest challenges yet. Midway in the first round, the ex-champ caught him with a right to the middle that pirouetted Cooper 90 degrees. The pummeling got worse. When the bell rang for Round 3, Cooper sagely refused to come...
...experts see no certain connection between national suicide rates and the availability of guns. While the U.S. has a disproportionate number of suicides by firearms, it falls only about midway on the World Health Organization's most recent list of overall suicide rates in 33 industrialized nations. At 13.2 per 100,000 people, America's record was far worse than that of Ireland (9.2), Italy (8.3), Spain (6.9) and Greece (3.8). But Hungary (45.5), Denmark (27.1), Finland (27) and Switzerland (22.8) make the problem in the U.S. seem inconsequential by comparison...
...also provide baby-sitting services, day care and activities from cooking classes in the hotel kitchen to kite flying. Many airlines, meanwhile, allowed children to fly free last spring, and some are still offering substantial discounts. Delta hands out Mickey Mouse visors, Alaska Airlines provides pencils and slates, and Midway Airlines serves up children's meals on Frisbees...
What is this? Where are we? Good question. Technically, we are in American ; Samoa, an "unincorporated territory" of seven tiny volcanic islands administered since 1951 by the U.S. Department of the Interior. Physically, we are midway between Hawaii and Australia, on the only piece of American soil south of the equator, and on the very edge of the international date line (this is one of the last places on earth where the day begins). Officially, we are celebrating Flag Day, the 89th anniversary of the first raising of the Stars and Stripes on this palm-fringed South Sea bubble...