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BARBRA STREISAND: I'm just lazy. It's work when you go do a movie. You've got to get up early in the morning and put on makeup and have costume fittings. It's a pain in the neck...
...would be far more convincing if there were any evidence that fans and teams otherwise give two snorts about athletes' health. But that wouldn't explain how we tolerate, for example, football linemen larding up to heart-straining proportions and players hobbling themselves for life by "playing through the pain" (i.e., getting taped and numbed by the team doc). Or jockeys nearly killing themselves to drop weight. Or the very existence of boxing...
When the stricken candidate first checked into the élite Vienna hospital in early September, doctors were stumped by his symptoms, which included acute back pain, swollen organs and numerous ulcers lining his digestive tract. But it was his worsening skin disorder, called chloracne, that pointed toward dioxin. Zimpfer noted that the fat-soluble substance would have been easy to administer in a cream-based soup. So who did the poisoning? "Of course, it was done by the authorities," Yushchenko told TIME last week, calling it "an act of political reprisal" by the government of departing President Leonid Kuchma, which...
...EUROPEAN PAIN...
Americans traveling in Europe, where their dollars don't go very far, are feeling some pain. While vacationing in Paris last week, university professor Maria Armanda was surprised to find "a bottle of Coca-Cola outside the bus stop was $2.60. That's unheard of! I needed the caffeine, or I wouldn't have bought it." Trina Chang, a Californian backpacking through Europe, says, "We were going to buy two oranges this morning, but they cost so much, we put them back. It's so expensive, it's so sad." More important, the cost of foreign goods...