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...your efforts, efforts that symbolize the love our consumers have for Coca-Cola." And Mullins' reward? What else? For being the new Coke's most persistent and outspoken critic, the company is giving him the first case of Coca-Cola Classic that comes off the bottling line nearest his residence. The Real Thing, again. --By John Greenwald. Reported by Joseph N. Boyce/New York, Joseph J. Kane and B. Russell Leavitt/Atlanta, with other bureaus
...Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth, gave the Houston Astros pitcher a two-minute standing ovation when he reached four grand. Ryan, 38, chalked up four more batters before leaving the game in the seventh inning. (The Astros won 4-3.) That 4,004 K mark is 96 ahead of his nearest rival, Philadelphia's Steve Carlton, currently sidelined by an injury...
...city's historic landmarks, from Leal Senado Square to the ruins of St. Paul's, pictured here. You'll learn plenty of trivia (sample: despite omnipresent church spires, only 15% of Macau's population is Roman Catholic) and can even press buttons to hear about the best restaurants and nearest rest rooms en route. And you don't have to spend any hard-earned winnings to enjoy the tour-it's free. You pay only for the airtime. Find out more at walkthetalk.hk...
...images were so arresting for Alasdair Foster, director of Sydney's Australian Centre for Photography, that he decided to base an exhibition around them. "It set me thinking about the fact that we don't talk much about our nearest neighbors," says Foster. While Blackmore's 25 startling yet often poetic images, of scenes from sing sings to AIDS wards, provide a social context for the raskols in "PNG" (the show opens this week), it is Dupont's 30 portraits that are more likely to challenge the way Australians see their neighbors. As well as flaunting hand-made guns...
...Internet, for those who are still a little fuzzy about these things, is the world's largest computer network and the nearest thing to a working prototype of the information superhighway. It's actually a global network of networks that links together the large commercial computer-communications services (like CompuServe, Prodigy and America Online) as well as tens of thousands of smaller university, government and corporate networks. And it is growing faster than O.J. Simpson's legal bills. According to the Reston, Virginia-based Internet Society, a private group that tracks the growth of the Net, it reaches nearly...