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...Japan, sudoku is based on 18th century mathematician Leonhard Euler's Latin Square, and first appeared in U.S. puzzle books in the 1970s under the scintillating title Number Puzzle. The Western craze didn't take off until last fall when an enterprising New Zealander used the Japanese name to pitch his puzzle-generating program to the London Times. Sudoku has since been picked up by nearly 60 newspapers, including the New York Post and several others in the U.S., all willing to inflict sudoku elbow on new generations of fans...
Such spectacles as these, suggesting the start of a full-blown trend, just might put a tiny chink in the razor business and a serious crimp in Kiam's sunny sales pitch, not to mention his syntax. "Is Don Johnson of the prehistoric cavemen who didn't know how to start fires nor learned good grooming?" he spluttered recently. Indeed, a little perspective might be useful right now, although the historical foundation for this great stubble bubble stops somewhat short of the dawn...
...known for the purest swing and the poorest luck in the National League. When the fifth game of the 1972 playoffs--the very pennant--came down to one pitch in the bottom of the ninth inning with two out and the winning run on third, McRae was at the plate poised to be the hero. But Pittsburgh's Bob Moose threw a wild pitch that utterly erased the figure in the batter's box from memory. With the bases loaded in the seventh game of the World Series, McRae managed only to tie the Oakland A's with a deep...
...last July, Leonard was pitching batting practice. He started over in the minor leagues with the Fort Myers Royals (A) and gingerly pitched his way to the Memphis Chicks (AA). In September, 28 months after his collapse, Leonard returned to Kansas City to pitch the eighth inning of the second game of a doubleheader against Milwaukee. He allowed one hit. "This spring," Howser says, "I told him, 'You're going to have to be a good pitcher to make our staff.' He told me, 'I don't want to be an average pitcher anyway. I don't want to just...
...structure stands at Thingvellir anymore. The place where the ancient Icelandic chieftains met is a field by a lake fed by a stream fed by a waterfall that rolls over black rocks with the sound of enthusiastic applause. In summer, tourists pitch tents out here in hordes. This morning finds a single tourist: there was no car on the road but mine. (Is history my scoop...