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Until they enlarge the puck and get skating cheerleaders, hockey will remain the Ringo Starr of American sports. Still, Ringo had his Octopus's Garden, and hockey had its equivalent last week with the triumphant return of former Pittsburgh Penguin star--and current Penguin owner--MARIO LEMIEUX. Retired for 3 1/2 years, Lemieux promised he wouldn't come back unless his skills were still sharp; in his first game he proved they were, notching a goal and two assists. "It was a great moment, the kind of moment I will cherish for a long time," said Lemieux, who speaks sports...
ALTER EGO Bruce Wayne COOL CAR Batmobile TRAGIC PAST Parents killed when he was a child URBAN PERCH Gotham ARCHENEMIES Riddler, Penguin, Joker SUPERPOWERS Batlike reflexes; dizzying array of gadgetry WEARS A CAPE...
...enthusiastic and briskly written 800-page Empire Express, published last year and now in a Penguin USA paperback edition, Middlebury College scholar David Haward Bain follows the money and back-room politics in more detail than Ambrose provides. Not unexpectedly, the G.I.'s chronicler prefers the front lines, where he is at his best describing men, armed with only hand tools, hacking and scraping their way over 2,000 inhospitable miles. When black powder proved too slow in piercing mountain granite, more powerful but dangerously unstable nitroglycerin was used--even though that meant more blasters would...
...PENGUIN THAT ROARED Linux, the little operating system that could, is catching up with big siblings Windows and Macintosh. Last week high-tech heavyweights IBM and Dell announced new deals to sell Linux servers, and a host of other firms declared their support for Gnome, a Windows-like user interface for Linux. Unlike its stuffier competitors, Linux is free, and was developed collaboratively by an international community of hackers. Also unlike its competitors, it has a funky penguin as a mascot...
According to Jean, when Burt Ward--who played Robin on TV's "Batman"--came to visit Harvard, Lampoon members dressed up as the Penguin and his crew and stole Ward's Robin suit...