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...heavy traffic at dangerously high speeds? Just ask Derrike Cope, 42, who won the Daytona 500 in 1990 and now calls races for the Fox Sports Network: "There is nothing like sitting in a projectile going 190 m.p.h. on the brink of going out of control. It's the sheer rush, touching every emotion you have." And a potentially lethal rush: three other NASCAR drivers died in the year leading up to Dale Earnhardt's crash...
...show this last phrase cropping up everywhere from George W. Bush billboards to Budweiser ads to the cover of TIME. Then Kansas City computer programmer and part-time deejay Jeffrey Ray Roberts, 23, sampled the quote and added an annoyingly catchy dance track. "I did it for the sheer inside-joke value," he says. "Everyone was trying to one-up each other." Next came a two-minute music video, and soon "All your base!" was being yelled out of dorm windows on campuses around the country. Much like its Web predecessors, the Dancing Baby and the "I kiss you!" home...
...What a moment it had been, in which the President of the United States briefly turned into Cab Calloway, and House Majority Leader Dick Armey was caught on camera with his eyes welling up at the sheer...
...president's term - it was really Bush's first night as President. Until now, the pall of illegitimacy has engulfed him. But the Miami Herald's finding that Bush would have really won Florida if all the votes had been counted, and the tragicomic Clinton follies combined with the sheer majesty of speaking from the podium all added up to making Bush look like the President. It helped, too, that unlike his inaugural or his convention speech last summer, he left his parents out of it. No cutaways of George and Barbara, weeping with pride over this boy of theirs...
...image of Dior and rebuilding to fit a vision uniquely his own. Slimane achieved fame in fashion circles in 1996 with his sleek, sexy designs for the Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche men's label. His clothes are unique in men's wear-slim leather coats, narrow suits and sheer shirts-subtle and elegant pieces that focus more on the cut than on styling flourishes. Critics labeled him either modern or feminine-the latter characterization supported by the fact that the stars he has dressed include Madonna...