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...Navratilova and Chris Evert; Steffi Graf and Monica Seles. And young, talented players, overwhelmed by the pressures of success, have often alienated their tour mates. But in the past, there was room for just two great rivals at a time. "Now," says Butch Buchholz, chairman of the Lipton and Pilot Pen tournaments, "we have a handful of names that sell tickets, which makes the appeal wider and the product just better...
...conclusion to be drawn so far from the known facts about the crash of Swissair flight 111, a McDonnell Douglas MD-11 that went down Wednesday night with 229 passengers and crew: There were no survivors. Among the dead were 137 Americans. Beyond that, details get sketchy: The pilot reported smoke in the cockpit less than an hour after taking off from JFK; the plane dumped fuel over Novia Scotia and seemed to be preparing for an emergency landing at Halifax airport; it plunged into the ocean shortly after 9:30 p.m. EDT. Swissair quickly ruled out the possibility...
...uncertainty could be changing. In the past few years, pharmaceutical companies have developed highly sensitive urine tests for chlamydia that work equally well for boys and girls. (The previous test required more invasive sampling of the cervix or urethra.) Such tests should permit more extensive screening campaigns. Already, a pilot program in the Pacific Northwest has achieved a dramatic decline, from 9% to 3%, in chlamydia rates among women in family-planning clinics. But the goal should be getting to zero, which means that both men and women need to be tested and treated. Otherwise, they'll just be reinfected...
Among the first network debuts of the fall season, this series began to create controversy months ago because a scene in the pilot suggests that the teenage characters have been smoking pot. In fact, their stoned conversation is the funniest thing in the whole episode. Produced by the teams that created Roseanne, The Cosby Show and 3rd Rock from the Sun, That 70's Show is otherwise a typical teen comedy, only with '70s artifacts pasted into it. Satirizing smiley faces and leisure suits is hardly fresh, although there's a sweetness and likability to the cast, led by Eric...
...thoughts the film stirred up. "My dad, J.D., was in the Army Air Corps, a crew chief on C-47 transports in China," he says. "He was on a flight over the Himalayas when fire broke out belowdecks. He put it out but got back up to find the pilot and copilot bailing out. He and a master sergeant talked 'em back to the controls." There's emotion in Buffett's voice. His eyes are hidden behind aviator shades. "My father never told me that story until the Alzheimer's. He never talked about the war. His generation...