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After months of battling AIDS-related illness, Ryan White, the Kokomo school boy with hemophilia, was eager to get back to Western Middle School and his friends this fall. Unfortunately, school officials do not want the seventh-grader in class. Though doctors believe that AIDS is not communicated through casual contact, School Superintendent J.O. Smith fears that Ryan poses too much of a risk to other students. He points to warnings from the Indiana board of health about the risks of exposure to AIDS-infected saliva and body fluids. "What are you going to do about someone chewing pencils...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIDS: A Growing Threat | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...just to be playing a game like this?' That's a particular moment for me, but as I look back, it seems that all of the great moments are from World Series and playoffs. Winning baseball games has meant the most to me." In that Series Cincinnati won the seventh game. Rose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: A Rose Is a Rose Is a Rose | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...kept yawning, "It's just another ball game." After Royals Lefthander Danny Jackson held St. Louis off in the 6-1 fifth game, when a close call at the plate caused Manager Whitey Herzog to mutter a few favorite epithets, the treat of a Tudor-Saberhagen showdown in a seventh game began to come into focus. All that required was a happier destiny for old Leibrandt in Game 6: a preposterous ninth-inning comeback, 2-1, topped by Dane Iorg's pinch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Gracious War Between the State | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

Such loyalty is highly lucrative. Bartosh reports that regular-season gate receipts plus the revenue from the state playoffs netted the school about $320,000. It costs $92,000 to run the entire football program, seventh through twelfth grade. The extra money pays for the school's other sports, known to some in these parts as "the lesser sports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Texas: The Only Game in Town | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

Harvard’s black community came together Saturday night to honor members for “breaking barriers and beating odds” in the seventh annual Tribute to Black Men, hosted by the Association of Black Harvard Women (ABHW...

Author: By Candice N. Plotkin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ABHW Event Honors Black Men | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

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