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...initial shock, the death of basketball star Reggie Lewis last week seemed a grim parable of the seductive power of professional sports -- of an athlete so devoted to a game and its rewards that he would distort medical truth in order to keep playing. It also seemed an object lesson in the relativity of medical truth, and in the perplexities -- perhaps even the questionable ethics -- of equally eminent specialists making highly public, completely contradictory diagnoses. The details that emerged in the days after Lewis died, however, suggested a medical and emotional situation that was both more complicated and more subtle...
...object of adoration is another man's prey. Whaling began centuries ago, spurred by the human need for whale meat and oils. The development of efficient "factory ships" in the 1920s almost wiped out the leviathans, leading ultimately to formation of the IWC in 1946. The commission tried for more than three decades to protect selected species before it finally decided that a total ban on commercial whaling was necessary...
...almost bears her distinctive vocal intonation--equal parts sarcasm and elegy behind the words. While this proves that Bernhard is sometimes capable of bringing her live energy to the page, it also suggests that her most effective medium is still performance. Love, Love and Love, like the elusive object it's named for, is occasionally enchanting but too often annoying...
...dollar: states, local governments, private charities and the victims themselves will have to bear much of the cost. Said Chris Edley Jr., a program associate director for the Office of Management and Budget: "For farmers, the point is to make sure that it's not a disastrous year. The object is to get them through the crisis, not make them whole...
...million years ago -- it threw megatons of dust into the air, blocking out the sun and putting the planet in a temporary deep freeze -- may have had company. French scientists have found rocky debris in the Pacific that's about the same age but probably came from a different object than the one that landed off Mexico's Yucatan coast. The implication is that an asteroid shower, rather than just a single asteroid, struck the earth...