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...Queen of Nice, but ROSIE O'DONNELL seems to have higher ambitions than royalty. Like sainthood. Claiming that she's "sick of all the crap" that goes along with being host of a daytime talk show, O'Donnell tells the November issue of Ladies' Home Journal that she plans to quit her highly profitable show when her contract runs out in 2002 so that she can concentrate on facilitating adoptions. O'Donnell, who has four adopted tykes of her own, recently opened a Rosie Adoptions office in New Jersey, and she already claims responsibility for 39 adoptions, including...
...Reino Aventura amusement park in Mexico City, where he spent 11 years in a small, warm concrete pool too shallow for a proper dive. He lost weight and became flabby and lethargic, and the viral skin infection spread. Reino Aventura tried to sell him, but no one wanted a sick whale...
Producer Richard Donner's Free Willy saved him. The 1993 Warner Bros. movie was a hit and was followed by an international public outcry, led chiefly by children, when it turned out that Willy in real life was Keiko, a sick and far from free whale. In January 1996, UPS helped pick up the tab for flying him in an ice-water-filled crate to a new home in Newport, Ore.--a $7.3 million pool, four times the size of the Mexican tank, with pumped-in, 37[degrees]F seawater deep enough to dive in. The pool was built with...
...With candidates and interest groups carpet bombing key markets, the question is whether they are informing and persuading voters or confusing and annoying them. At WLNS in Lansing, Mich., not even the daytime soaps or weekend football games offer a refuge from politics anymore. "I'm sick about all the commercials," complains Sandra Bierwagen, 64. That may be why the Republican Party in Michigan considered getting some votes for local candidates by offering viewers a little relief - a spot featuring a babbling brook and a soothing voice-over: "This 30-second interlude of peace was brought...
...gets sick of so much holy rage - of the conflicts of two peoples, each of whom see themselves as victims, and, being victims, justified in any murderous thing they may do. When the victim's mentality is planted in holy ground, it becomes fissionable material. Maybe it's time for some international authority, some parental presence, to move in and take over...