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...major-league baseball's 123rd year, are two men--Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals and the Chicago Cubs' Sammy Sosa--suddenly destined to cream the home-run record as if it were a pitiful little Rawlings sphere? And, dammit, with so little suspense! Since 1961, hot stovers have debated whether Maris' feat, in a 162-game season, truly equaled Ruth's in a 154-game span. But on Saturday, when McGwire pummeled his 60th homer against Cincinnati, his team was playing only its 141st game. Sosa had a just slightly less preposterous 58 dingers in 142 Cubs games...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball These Are The Good Old Days | 9/14/1998 | See Source »

...season, twice as pricey as most others. Where's the moolah going? Into the special effects, from computer-generated images of the White House exploding (again) and the bombing of the Speaker's limousine to the design and building of a huge 24-ft.-high, 45-ft.-wide sphere for time travel. The show stars Jonathan LaPaglia, once a real-life emergency-room doctor who turned in his stethoscope for show biz, as Frank Parker, a former CIA renegade who's drafted into Operation Back-Step, a time-travel mission that goes back seven days to undo damage wrought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UPN Goes After the Boys With Bangs and Bucks | 7/6/1998 | See Source »

...giant: a big, gaseous sphere more than twice as massive as Jupiter and some 450 light-years from Earth. Susan Terebey, an astronomer at the Extrasolar Research Corp. in Pasadena, Calif., discovered it quite by accident while studying a cloud of gas in the constellation Taurus where a lot of stars are being born. When Terebey and her colleagues looked closely at one double-star system, they noticed a long wisp of gas trailing off into space, and at the end of the wisp, a tiny dot of light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weird World: Hubble snaps the first photo of a distant planet | 6/8/1998 | See Source »

Participation in extracurricular organizations has always given Harvard students a chance to dig for opportunity beyond the academic sphere...

Author: By Scott A. Resnick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Increasing Trend Toward Careerism Is Controversial | 6/4/1998 | See Source »

...apparently set in among us. Though the debate over unfair labor practices and union organization was muddled by accusations of misinformation, at the end of the day thousands of students voted with their stomachs--an indication of their reluctance to participate in conflicts and debates beyond the Harvard sphere...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Challenge Of Our Generation | 6/3/1998 | See Source »

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