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...months after that game, Favre tearfully admitted he was addicted to the painkiller Vicodin. Last summer he checked himself into the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas, and emerged a new man. He swore off alcohol and married his high school sweetheart, the mother of their five-year-old daughter. But soon thereafter, his best friend back in Kiln, Mississippi, Mark Haverty, was killed in a car accident; the driver, who police say was legally intoxicated, was Brett's brother Scott. A month after that, his sister Brandi was arrested in connection with a drive-by shooting in Louisiana. Through...
...Mexicans for Science and Reason. On the other hand, tinkering in that way with the standards won't necessarily weaken instruction on evolution. "Where you have strong science programs now, they'll ignore the [state] standards," says Bill Wagnon, a professor of history at Washburn University who represents Topeka on the Kansas school board...
...have listed phone numbers. But Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, elected to the city council in 1983, has kept his number listed ever since. The mayors of Minneapolis, Minn., and San Antonio, Texas, can be found in the phone book, and so can the top executives of smaller towns like Topeka, Kans., and Fargo, N.D. If you ring Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin, you just may get her mother, Ruth White, who calmly refers irate callers to city hall. Says White: "I think most people just want somebody to listen to them." --By Elspeth Reeve
...across a desk dominated by a bulky radio microphone. A fleshy, pie-faced man in a short-sleeved shirt is idly dealing blackjack hands to himself while grappling with questions from his call-in radio audience. Mostly, the problems revolve around money: investments, insurance, loans, lawsuits. A man from Topeka who sells computer cables for a living wants to know how much liability coverage he should have. Bruce Williams replies, "I wouldn't walk across the street with less than a mil. Juries are crazy." A caller from Spokane wants advice on borrowing $2,000. Williams grabs a nearby booklet...
...soul of the stage may be the grand tragedy or its modern cousin, the middle-class problem play, but the essence of Broadway is the musical. Spectacular song-and-dance numbers lure the tourists from Topeka and Tokyo and wave the American flag in London's West End. Every kind of straight play can be developed in the cozy environment of a regional theater, but only on Broadway can the big, brassy musical be consistently nourished with enough cash and applause. Throughout the past season, which many have judged among the worst in a decade or more, the prime barometer...