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...lullaby for the senses. Period photos of adventurers, early editions of Jules Verne and Dorian Gray, a mahogany bar where a fellow serves "smart drinks," heavy on the ginkgo. This is the Explorer's Lounge, the front room of a Virtual World shop in the San Francisco suburb of Walnut Creek. But behind the paneled walls, some pioneering menace is afoot. Five kill-crazy nerdlingers will soon engage in mortal combat, 21st century style, against a tenderfoot with a cunning computer handle: Cyber Rick...
...history was unfolding. Five hundred candidates turned up for open auditions to become the team's new stadium announcer, but none of the dozens of experienced sports broadcasters vying for the plum platform got the nod. Instead the Giants will start a rookie -- a legal secretary from Walnut Creek, California. On opening day, April 5, Sherry Davis will become the first woman ever to be a full-time pro baseball announcer. The pay: $75 a game. Davis, a longtime baseball buff with training in TV-commercial voice-overs, has a smooth delivery the front office hopes fans will prefer...
Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt scans his vast office, then gazes down at the blue Republican carpet. He intends to tear the rug out, for it conceals a fine walnut floor installed during New Deal days by his conservationist hero, Harold Ickes. Not even the floor covering is beyond the scrutiny of Babbitt as he carries out vast changes in the Interior Department and in the government's philosophy toward its public lands. Where conservatives James Watt and Manuel Lujan once presided, Babbitt now speaks as if he were in a vanguard of liberators. "There has been an ideological war going...
...American closet, it's getting harder and harder to conceal its prodigious effects on the huge segment of the population born after World War II. Says Brian O'Brien, 30, who used a $20,000 cash infusion from his parents to buy a $235,000 three-bedroom house in Walnut Creek, California, last year: "It's kind of like the unspoken reality of our generation. Everybody gets by and buys houses, and nobody asks where the money came from...
...Society." To encourage the children, he has set up an elaborate system of rewards for excellence in every category, amassing a treasure of parchment certificates and glittering trophies, medals and pins he hands out amid much fanfare. The outstanding student last year received a 4- ft.-tall trophy of walnut and brass replete with winged victories and a lamp of learning. "This is what the students need," says Pannell. "They need it tangible, and they need it immediate." Something appears to be working. Attendance rates, now running 93%, are finally expected to equal the district's system-wide average...