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Boston Herald sports columnist Howard Bryant is author of Juicing the Game. Baseball in the '90s — with greater profit and more record breakers than ever — has come to be known as "The Juiced Era." But the dark side has been the use of performance-enhancing drugs such as steroids.

A tentative settlement has been reached in a class-action lawsuit brought by families of victims and survivors of last June's condominium collapse in Surfside, Florida.

Superstar cellist Yo-Yo Ma leads the 22 international virtuosos of the Silk Road Ensemble — which was founded at Tanglewood Music Center in 2000 — in a blend of world music. The concert takes place at the Civic Theatre in downtown San Diego.

The U.S. Navy is flying unmanned robotic vehicles to Russia's Pacific Coast, in an effort to rescue the crew of a Russian mini-sub snagged in fishing net along the ocean bottom. About 30 Navy crewmembers from San Diego will use two remotely operated vehicles in an attempt to free the sub and its seven-member crew.

Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) has called for an investigation into a hidden feature of the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas that depicts graphic sex acts. Slate senior editor Andy Bowers explains how video games get rated.

Will a gradual, region-by-region withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq begin next summer, as has been suggested? There is a growing sense of urgency to remove American troops, but turning the job over to Iraqi security forces is a complex prospect.

The controversial new U.S. ambassador to the United Nations has been keeping a low profile in New York. Analysts weigh in on the prospects for Bolton, a ferocious critic of the U.N., to become an effective U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

An alliance of Central Asian states, as well as Russia and China, are calling on the Bush administration to set a date for withdrawing from military bases in the region. These bases have been vital to the military operations in Afghanistan.

In 1982, Waldemar Bastos defected from Angola, where a brutal civil war was under way. Two decades later he returned to perform in his native country. His new CD offers hope for the future.

Rodney Crowell has constantly forged ahead into new musical and thematic territory in his career. His newest music is no exception, as he crisscrosses between rock, country, and gospel.