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This delicate balance always threatens to tip, and when it does, cities can | spiral into an anarchy that defies all attempts at reversal. From Belfast, where religious hatred spawns terror, to Los Angeles, where the acquittal of four white policemen accused of beating a black motorist triggered last April's rampage of looting and arson, city dwellers have paid a horrible price when ethnic and political tensions boiled to the surface. When fighting began in Beirut in 1974, merchants spoke confidently of a return to normality within months. Few Lebanese expected that strife would still rule their lives 18 years...
...many other cities. The era of the megacity could bring the triumphant return of microbes that have toppled empires throughout history. Says Harvard public-health expert Jonathan Mann: "We only have a truce with infectious disease, and if a city's infrastructure gets overloaded, the balance can tip back to microbes at any time." The cholera epidemic that hit Latin American cities last year, hospitalizing more than 400,000 people and killing at least 4,000 in a few months, shows how quickly a disease can move when it finds a foothold in crowded slums...
...power play, Crimson Co-Captains Kim Landry and Joey Alissi had a 2-on-1 break with a chance to cut the margin to one. But Landry's shot sailed harmlessly wide of goalie Sarah Millet, and Harvard would not threaten again until Landry's power play tip-in with 28 seconds remaining ended the scoring...
...those goals, however, was the eventual game winner: a tip-in by freshman forward Tom Holmes following a junior Brian Farrell slap shot from the point. Holmes scored his first two collegiate goals in the win. Captain Ted Drury had two assists and a goal...
...Shaquille O'Neal. Magic, who with Larry Bird made the N.B.A.'s '80s a decade of dazzle, brought that era to an end with his (and Bird's) retirement. But pro basketball soon found a figure worthy of Johnson's number: O'Neal, a superstar force from the first tip-off, and spearhead of the league's most glamorous freshman class since 1979. O'Neal's team: the Orlando Magic, of course...