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...Gore, who has spent each month since April staging photo-ops on climate data, lost no time in sharing his shock and dismay at this new world record. "Running for President on the weather is a novel strategy," says TIME Deputy Washington Bureau chief Jef McAllister, "but Gore seems determined to give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Earth's Air-Conditioned Nightmare | 8/10/1998 | See Source »

...smack the bejeezus out of a ball--that's the guy for us. Like most great things American, the home run deconstructs strategy with a beautiful act of aggression. So Mark McGwire, 250 lbs. of muscle in a game full of the fat and unfit, doesn't really shock when he sends the ball more than 500 ft. And Ken Griffey Jr., hat backwards, grin cocksure, seems almost bored as he gently taps homers over the fence. The crowd expects it, the crowd gets it, and the crowd goes home happy. We delight in the obvious. Give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: The Fun Is Back | 7/27/1998 | See Source »

...much of this century, the prevailing thought was that pre-term babies should not be touched, since the slightest shock could prove fatal. Ever so slowly, the medical establishment has been warming to the idea that massage helps sickly babies. Yet only a handful of hospital nurseries in the U.S. offer massage to these tiniest of patients. Hospital administrators remain skeptical of claims about its therapeutic value, and since most HMOs don't cover baby massage, there's little incentive to start pilot programs. Besides, harried nurses can barely handle the steady stream of critically ill infants with special needs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Touch Early And Often | 7/27/1998 | See Source »

...with thousands still missing and the mangrove swamps and lagoons littered with corpses, authorities fear it may be closer to 3,000. And that may be compounded by the threat of disease as bodies lie unburied in the tropical heat and homeless residents, still in shock, find themselves without adequate food or a safe water supply. The tsunamis followed a yearlong drought in which thousands of people starved to death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tsunamis May Have Killed a Generation | 7/21/1998 | See Source »

...Carlin at work. Rock's own act got smarter, bolder, and in 1990 he landed a job on Saturday Night Live. "At the time that Chris was coming up, the Def Comedy Jam style became the dominant African-American style of comedy," says SNL executive producer Lorne Michaels. "The shock there was in the language. But Chris was going with the shock of ideas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock Star | 7/20/1998 | See Source »

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