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Another attraction is the competition itself. Purists such as ucla's legendary coach John Wooden think women's basketball is more watchable than men's basketball. It's certainly more structured and team-oriented than the helter-skelter N.B.A. game, and that aesthetic has helped the W.N.B.A. attract older fans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE N.B.A.'S SISTER ACT | 8/4/1997 | See Source »

Both because of and despite such associations, Bacharach, 69, is currently enjoying greater popularity than at any other time since his heyday in the 1960s and early '70s, when, working against the rock grain, he was responsible for dozens of Top 40 hits, including surprisingly nuanced adult-oriented love songs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BURT BACHARACH: WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS | 7/21/1997 | See Source »

At least some of the distance is racial. Bruce Sikes, pastor of the Messiah Youth Ministry, says that at one church, a deacon came right out and objected that Sikes' street-oriented mission was bringing blacks into the church. And at Mount Olive, a white parishioner would not let a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI: GATHERING IN FAITH BUT NOT TOO CLOSE | 7/7/1997 | See Source »

Good luck. Software filters and online ratings systems have been around since before the CDA was born, and they've always been beset with problems. Recently, for instance, when Microsoft began backing a ratings standard known as RSACI and started including the filter as part of its browser, Internet Explorer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNSHACKLING NET SPEECH | 7/7/1997 | See Source »

In the public-health court, the American Lung Association reacted loudly. It opposes any limits on individual lawsuits or class actions, and expressed particular skepticism about the settlement's prohibitions on youth-oriented advertising. "The ability of the tobacco industry to reinvent itself and circumvent such restrictions," said Lung Association...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SORRY, PARDNER | 6/30/1997 | See Source »

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