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...make itself disappear come play-off time. "He is not going to dominate night in and night out," warned his buddy, the noted hoop philosopher Charles Barkley. "I don't think they will make the play-offs." Neither Jordan nor the Wiz did anything to dispel that notion, dropping 10 of their first 13 games, including an eight-game slide, the longest of Jordan's career. He scored a personal-low 6 points one night. His knees were aching. "It's disappointing more than frustrating," he said after yet another loss. "We've made some improvements since...
...shelter. At 5:30, the police descended, and Sanders didn't run. They found a small rock of crack in his waistband. "They were very courteous," Sanders said of the police. After being strip-searched and photographed, Sanders sat quietly on the floor of the holding cell, processing the notion that he'd just sent himself back to prison. "I lost my mind. I did it to myself," he said by way of explanation. He made no phone calls...
Some groups cherish the notion of buying a plot of land and building separate houses on it or buying and splitting up an apartment building. "I've talked about buying a grand old house to share with my husband and four other couples, along with one younger person to do the harder physical work," says Pauline Boss, 67, a family therapist at the University of Minnesota...
...decade ago, medical science despaired of ever finding vaccines that would be able to ward off illnesses like malaria and tuberculosis, which have plagued humanity for thousands of years, and AIDS, which looked as though it might turn out to be even deadlier than these ancient killers. The notion that this venerable disease-prevention strategy would prove effective against these and others seemed farfetched...
...cholesterol and may make the blood less sticky. Scientists are fairly confident that garlic also has antibacterial and antifungal powers. Preliminary reports even suggest that garlic may block the parasites that cause malaria. On perhaps less firm footing is the theory that allyl sulfides can stop tumor growth, a notion so far borne out only in the petri dish...