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...yoga. Senarighi's class, called Yogadevotion and taught in the main chapel of St. Andrew's Lutheran Church in Mahtomedi, Minn., is part of a fast-growing movement that seeks to retool the 5,000-year-old practice of yoga to fit Christ's teachings. From Phoenix, Ariz., to Pittsburgh, Pa., from Grand Rapids, Mich., to New York City, hundreds of Christian yoga classes are in session. A national association of Christian yoga teachers was started in July, and a slew of books and videos are about to hit the market. But the very phrase stiffens yoga purists and some...
Recent graduates Noah Welch and Ryan Lannon signed with the Pittsburgh Penguins Wednesday. Welch was a second-round pick of the club in 2001, while Lannon was taken in the eight round...
...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 fly that missed being a home...
...chili cook-off is planned along the route in Texas. Members of the feuding Navajo and Hopi Indian tribes have got together to endorse the event. Along a ten-mile stretch in New Mexico, thousands of hot-air balloons will ascend simultaneously. The chain will snake through the Pittsburgh Pirates' Three Rivers Stadium, where Pete Rose's Cincinnati Reds will be playing, so that fans and players can join hand to glove...
...Pittsburgh-based USX, the steel and energy giant (1985 sales: $19.2 billion), the threat was only the latest in a series of battles. Amid a lengthy steel strike, its first since 1959, and menaced for weeks by speculative stock buying and takeover rumors, the company headed by Chairman David Roderick, 62, faced an $8 billion buyout offer from Carl Icahn, 50, chairman of Trans World Airlines. At week's end it was unclear whether Icahn sought control of USX or merely wanted to pocket a hefty profit for his efforts...