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...earth is to be "recycled"? A UFO is hiding in the tail of the Hale-Bopp comet? Human bodies are nothing but "containers"? In Julius Caesar, Shakespeare showed he understood this thinking: "But men may construe things, after their fashion, clean from the purpose of the things themselves." GARY GARSHFIELD Irvine, California...
...because this onetime fastball pitcher turned knuckleballer threw baseball a curve. His 1970 classic, Ball Four, forever changed the way fans looked at baseball. Bouton had been one of the best. In 1963 he had a record of 21 and 7--and made $10,500. But at the tail end of his career, he wrote a seriously funny book that revealed, among other things, that Mickey Mantle shunned giving autographs to kids and professional ballplayers were not the boy scouts they made themselves out to be. The book became a best seller, but Bouton was condemned by his peers. After...
...cockpit was filled with smoke. I could see the flames a few inches from the gas tanks. I stuck my head out, and the wind sucked me out of the cockpit. I must have pulled the rip cord then--too early. My head grazed the elevator at the tail. The chute had several panels ripped out as it momentarily hung up. I was so lucky. An inch or two difference, and I would have been killed by the blow or dragged down with the plane...
...Bopp's path across the sky will take the comet right into prime time. By April 1 or so, when it makes its closest approach to Earth, the comet will be high in the evening skies over the northern hemisphere, brighter than ever and showing a short but prominent tail. And there it will sit, not for a measly week like Hyakutake, but for more than a month. "I predict that this could be the most viewed comet in all of human history," says Daniel Green, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts. "This will...
...headed calves. The Norman Conquest of England was attributed to the 1066 flyby of Halley's, history's most famous comet, which has been linked to everything from Julius Caesar's assassination to the defeat of Attila the Hun. Told that Earth would pass through Halley's tail during its 1910 visit, many Americans panicked and bought gas masks and "comet pills...