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Guess KERRY WOOD was ready for the major leagues after all. The 20-year-old Chicago Cubs pitcher tied the record held by the venerable Roger Clemens when he struck out 20 Houston Astros last week. (Perhaps he ought not go home to Texas this off-season.) Of course, Clemens did it twice, 10 years apart, but this was only the fifth game of Wood's major league career. "It was just one of those days when everything you throw is crossing the plate," Wood said. "It just felt like I was playing catch." If he can keep this...
...embraces the conventions of the old-fashioned disaster movie. You find yourself hoping that when Armageddon arrives, somebody as sensible, humane and good-fatherish as Morgan Freeman is in the White House; that the demographically useful teenager who discovers the threatening comet is a smart, plucky puppy like Elijah Wood; that somebody as down-home and dutiful as Robert Duvall is commanding the space mission charged with diverting the asteroid from its deadly path. We could probably do with fewer of ambitious TV reporter Tea Leoni's problems with her wayward dad, but on the whole there are worse people...
Three years ago, MILTON JONES was watching a Nightline report on the still unsolved Unabomber case. At the time, investigators were trying to figure out the meaning of the wooden components found in the bombs and the references to wood and other elements of nature in the choice of victims. Jones, then studying American literature at Brigham Young University, theorized that the Unabomber was using a literary device known as juxtaposition. By mailing a bomb to a person named Wood or someone living on Aspen Drive, the Unabomber was saying technology was destroying nature. But by making the bomb partly...
...advice and say something in a way that will grab you, sitting there thinking about that final paper. It is hard to be concrete because such an awakening is very personal, and from this vantage point I can only vaguely make it out myself, there in the yellow wood. With courage, luck, and a year away, the stark realities will confront me at every turn, and I will learn from their challenges...
National League San Diego (Brown 2-2) at Milwaukee (Karl 4-0), 1:05 p.m. Los Angeles (Dreifort 0-2) at Atlanta (Maddux 3-2), 1:10 p.m. Houston (Reynolds 2-2) at Chicago Cubs (Wood 2-2), 2:20 p.m. Cincinnati (Remlinger 2-3) at Montreal (Vazquez 1-2), 7:05 p.m. Colorado (Thompson 1-2) at Philadelphia (Beech 0-2), 7:05 p.m. San Francisco (Rueter 3-2) at Florida (Hernandez 2-2), 7:05 p.m. St. Louis (Stottlemyre 3-2) at Pittsburgh (Schmidt 3-1), 7:05 p.m. Arizona (Anderson 1-3) at N.Y. Mets (Jones...