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...Arlene. Then Bret bowled into Texas. After that there were a few sputterers ? Cindy, Dennis and Emily. And then there is the furious Floyd (trailed closely by Gert, with Harvey hovering in the distance). What's going on here? Another trio of hurricanes lining up to take a punch at the United States? Sure, it's hurricane season, but why are there so many storms and why is this one so powerful? Is it just coincidence, or has humanity's abuse of the earth ? in the form of global warming ? come back to haunt...
NAME: Martina "Not Navratilova" Hingis OCCUPATION: Teen-age tennis phenom BEST PUNCH: After Serena and Venus' father predicted an all-Williams U.S. Open final, Hingis said he had a "big mouth" and the family "talk...
NAME: Serena "Not Esther" Williams OCCUPATION: Teen-age tennis phenom BEST PUNCH: The high school graduate noted that Hingis' habit of speaking out might have "a little bit to do with not having a formal education...
...maybe Rock is a fighter. Not with his fists but with his jokes. His punch lines are his punches, his gibes are his jabs. In fact, just as Muhammad Ali had his Rumble in the Jungle, Rock hopes to set his next HBO stand-up in the symbolic location of Africa. "It's weird with stand-up comedy," he says. "It doesn't really translate worldwide. I want to figure out how do I make it worldwide. Do a special in Africa. Can't beat that. Pull that off, then I will have done something...
...Everybody relax and go back to your drinks." That may not be the way scientists usually talk to one another, but it was the punch line of Caltech astronomer GEORGE DJORGOVSKI's e-mailed message to colleagues last week informing them that a cosmic mystery that had stumped astronomers for three years (TIME, Aug. 30) wasn't so mysterious after all. Slightly embarrassed by all the fuss, including at least one starstruck Page One account suggesting otherworldly possibilities, Djorgovski said the enigmatic speck of light that he had found in the constellation Serpens was what he had suspected...