1.  Defensive lineman Leon Lett will be back next month from his drug suspension.

2.  Defensively, he is not as agile laterally or getting back on transition.

3.  Defensively, the Lakers can gamble more, and emotionally, the club will have its captain and enforcer back.

4.  Dennis Eckersley, for one, knows about the immutable laws of diminished expectations back home.

5.  Dennis Franchione hopes his friends and the people back in Fort Worth understand, too.

6.  Denver Mayor Wellington Webb, who is a Baptist, also criticized the decision to remove the press and intervened to allow them back inside.

7.  Defibrillators work by shocking the heart back into a regular rhythm.

8.  Defying analysts who predicted that the victory of the opposition leader in Taiwan's presidential election would scare off investors, the stock market here roared back on Tuesday.

9.  Defying history and Henry Ford, the plantations are thriving, placing Brazil back on the road to self-sufficiency in rubber for the first time since 1950.

10.  Cuban righty Livan Hernandez was awarded the Series MVP trophy, while folks cried in their beer back in Ohio.