Knight-Ridder Tribune

Call it the Unrealized Dream Team. Of the 12 U.S. boxers who came here searching for gold at the Olympics, only three medaled, and only one of those-Oscar De La...

When the theaters get hot, the streets get even hotter. ''Mo` Money,'' ''Boomerang,'' ''Lethal Weapon 3,'' and ''Batman Returns'' are hits at the box office-but they`re even bigger hits on...

The cue stick eases forward, its leather tip coming within a wisp of the cue ball before backing away, then forward and back again. Then it explodes forward. The cue...

They have buried cars, barges and bridge girders in watery graves. They have littered Davy Jones` Locker with ferries, freighters and fighter-jet fuselages. But now, Dade County artificial reef architects...

Tuning in to the Olympics is a thrill. But after a hard day`s night watching boxing, weight lifting, swimming, diving, basketball and gymnastics, I start feeling like a lumpy couch...

You`ve got to admire the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, and not just for the caliber of its singing or the fact that all of its members are unpaid volunteers. Take the...

An overwhelming 87 percent of kids whose parents smoke don`t like it and worry that Mom or Dad is being hurt by the habit. Nearly as many flat-out think their...

When Vice President Dan Quayle said he`d stand by his daughter if she got pregnant and decided on abortion, he did more than precipitate another headache for the Republican ticket....

What The Library of America is doing for our finest books-publishing immaculately edited definitive editions-Home Vision Cinema is doing on videocassette for some of the greatest international films. Consider Home...

It`s Jon Lovitz`s birthday. He`s, uh, 35. Friends and well-wishers from as far away as Belgium are phoning to wish him well. ''Sorry. Could you hold a second?'' he asks...