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...drift ever farther from the magic moments of the fall of ?04, and our relationship particularly with the Yankees enters new chapters-witness the weekend?s events-this becomes the Sox reality we have to deal with. The trophy, still thrilling to the touch, is a vessel of the past...
...once. Shortly before Christmas, he learned that Donna had an enlarged heart and was not expected to live more than two months. Felipe too had a health problem: he suffered from severe headaches. He told his mother, "If I die, give my heart to my girlfriend." When a blood vessel ruptured in Felipe's brain, killing him, his heart was transplanted into Donna's chest. Said her father Raymond: "Without what he did for Donna, there would be two tragedies instead...
...President Taylor, a U.S. merchant vessel with a small cargo of cotton, was cruising in the Gulf of Oman 26 miles out of the United Arab Emirates port of Fujaira when it happened. An Iranian frigate warned the Taylor to prepare to be boarded. The U.S. captain reluctantly consented. For 45 minutes an Iranian officer and six seamen, three equipped with submachine guns, searched for matériel that might be destined for Iraq, Iran's enemy in the five-year-old gulf war. Finding none, they departed...
...flattop is 1,000 ft. long and weighs 65,000 tons, a monster by Soviet standards but considerably smaller than the U.S.S. Eisenhower (1,092 ft., 94,000 tons). Even so, the nuclear-powered vessel launched last month at the Nikolayev Shipyard on the Black Sea is a notable Soviet innovation: the country's first conventional aircraft carrier. The ship sports both an angled flight deck for fixed-wing aircraft, as on all U.S. carriers, and a ski-jump ramp, similar to those on British carriers, for launching short-takeoff aircraft. Existing Soviet carrier-type vessels, like...
...storybook legend of Donna Ashlock continues to grow. She is the California youngster whose romantically heartsick school friend, Felipe Garza, astoundingly prefigured his own death and directed that her sick heart be replaced with his. When Garza, 15, actually did die of a burst blood vessel in the brain, a transplant proved possible, and last week, just eleven days after the operation, Donna, 14, was well enough to log ten minutes on an exercise bicycle. Doctors at Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco said that her body showed no signs of rejecting her new heart and that she might...