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...thing the Harvey Awards, the other annual industry awards besides the Eisners, will now be given out at the festival. This is a monumental improvement over the Harvey's last home at the Pittsburgh Comicon, of all things. Consequently, says Lawrence Klein, the awards will be on Saturday night and the festival will be on Sunday. But other changes may take place as well, according to Klein. The success of the festival has begun to challenge the capacity of the Puck building for a single day. The show may move to another venue and they may make it into...
...Sammy Sosa.?The ebullient home run king has hit only six balls out of the park this year. His right big toe swelled up to twice the size of his left toe, and he had to endure a painful removal of the nail. In April, a pitch by the Pittsburgh Pirates? Salomon Torres shattered Sosa's batting helmet with Sammy still...
...base pay from about $50,000 down to about $33,000. "I feel like a marathon runner who sees the finish line but when he gets close, his coach holds up a sign that says he has 25 more miles to go," says Costello, 61, who works for Wheeling Pittsburgh Steel in Mingo Junction, Ohio. "I'm going to have to work until I die." Costello chose to work in steel mills rather than the coal mines where his father toiled because he believed steel jobs were more secure. Now he is scrapping plans to build a long-planned retirement...
...twice as likely to get hit by lightning or die in a flash flood, according to a report delivered last week in Atlanta at a meeting sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In low-lying flood zones, says Thomas Songer of the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health, men are more likely to drive around barricades and drown in high water...
Another Harvard offensive lineman, Jack Fadule, signed with the Pittsburgh Steelers...