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That's the way it was until earlier this year when Moody, then 35, found her way to the unobtrusive three-story building known as Genesis House. Tucked close by Chicago's Wrigley Field, Genesis House is a place where hookers try to go straight. Seven days a week, around the clock, women turn up for a shower, a snack or a shoulder to cry on. They are never pressured to give up life on the street. Women like Moody are allowed to decide whether to embark on full-scale, residential rehabilitation. "We're here to plant the seed...
...count as a homer and a double. His blasts are cathartic in their destruction, and the damage is sanctified giddily: the St. Louis Post-Dispatch sign he cracked with a 545-ft. homer at Busch Stadium proudly wears a giant Band-Aid, and a replacement front-porch handrail outside Wrigley Field goes unpainted to commemorate a stadium-clearing batting practice shot...
...obsessed Chicagoans--at least for the moment--with a distraction from their nervous preoccupation with the future of Michael Jordan and the rest of the world champion hoopsters. "The fans around here are crazy about Sosa," says Ron Stampley, manager of the Cubby Bear, a popular sports bar near Wrigley Field. "They cheer for him as loudly as they cheer for Jordan." Indeed, Sosa's slugging streak, along with wunderkind pitcher Kerry Wood's arm and first baseman Mark Grace's hot bat, is helping to make the long-hapless Cubs into contenders for the first time in a decade...
...anything be done? Robinson is determined to try. At a visit to Chicago's Wrigley Field, Robinson lobbied everyone from managers to the organist and public-address announcer: Get those batters moving out of the on-deck circle as soon as possible; have bat boys ready in order to bring the batter a new bat if he breaks...
...from their homeland. An apocalyptic carnival air--some looters wildly driving abandoned embassy cars around the city until they ran out of gas; others ransacking Saigon's Newport PX, that transplanted dream of American suburbia, with one woman bearing off two cases of maraschino cherries, another a case of Wrigley's Spearmint gum. Out in the South China Sea, millions of dollars worth of helicopters tossed overboard from U.S. rescue ships to make room for later-arriving choppers. For many Americans, it was like a death--long been expected but shocking when it finally happened...