The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI) articles from March 2003

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI) archives from March 2003

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March 31, 2003... Byline: Jeff Potrykus (ASTERISK)Headline: Jayhawks rule in Kansas Team's confidence spreads to its fans ASSOCIATED PRESS (ASTERISK)Cutline: Big Jay, the Kansas mascot, celebrates with the other Jayhawks fans as the team...

Drug yields improvements in patients with Parkinson's disease.
March 31, 2003... Byline: John Fauber Using an experimental Parkinson's drug that is pumped directly into the brain, a team of scientists in Madison and Great Britain obtained substantial improvements in the symptoms in all of its first five patients, a...

Rumor mill keeps Marines entertained.
March 31, 2003... Byline: Nahal Toosi SOUTHERN IRAQ _ Jennifer Lopez was supposed to visit the Marines of the 6th Engineer Support Battalion on a USO tour weeks ago. She did not show. Neither did Britney Spears, Shania Twain, nor Kid Rock. Osama...

History is served in Final Four.
March 30, 2003... Byline: Jeff Potrykus The 2003 NCAA men's Final Four should appeal to history buffs, to those basketball fans who revel in seeing teenagers defiantly challenge their elders, to those fans who revel in seeing elders teach those same...

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March 30, 2003... Byline: Dale Hofmann MILWAUKEE _ It seems Marquette's road to New Orleans ran through Louisville. You wouldn't want this team laying out your vacation route, but it does have a nice weekend planned for you. Louisville is where the...

Woods sprays his way out of the top 10.
March 30, 2003... Byline: Gary D'Amato PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. _ Although no one counted him out, few people really expected Tiger Woods to win The Players Championship on Sunday. But nobody expected him to do what he did. Woods sprayed tee shots...

One soldier's sacrifice.
March 30, 2003... Byline: Mark Johnson GREEN BAY, Wis. _ Before President Bush sent U.S. soldiers to fight Iraq, he warned that "War has no certainty except the certainty of sacrifice," and the truth of those words hit hard as Americans are killed and...

Security tightens around land of the free.
March 30, 2003... Byline: Alan J. Borsuk WASHINGTON _ Compare what average citizens did to help support the nation's war effort in World War II with what citizens are doing now, James Woolsey suggests: Then: Victory gardens. War bonds. Accepting...

Rumor mill keeps Marines entertained.
March 30, 2003... Byline: Nahal Toosi SOUTHERN IRAQ _ Jennifer Lopez was supposed to visit the Marines of the 6th Engineer Support Battalion on a USO tour weeks ago. She did not show. Neither did Britney Spears, Shania Twain, nor Kid Rock. Osama...

Glory days return at Marquette.
March 29, 2003... Byline: Dale Hofmann MINNEAPOLIS _ Make room, Al McGuire. Move over, Butch Lee, Bo Ellis and friends. Marquette basketball is back where you left it three decades ago. It arrived Saturday strictly on merit, dominating everyone's...

Kentucky has no answer for Wade.
March 29, 2003... Byline: Jeff Potrykus MINNEAPOLIS _ The University of Kentucky players and coaches will be reliving the Dwyane Wade highlight video for the next seven months, or until the start of the 2003-'04 season, when they can return to the...

March Madness hits the Marquette campus.
March 29, 2003... Byline: Lori Nickel MILWAUKEE, Wis. _ There was a moment, in his first year as men's basketball coach at Marquette University, when Tom Crean wondered how he could get students back in the stands and people in the state behind this...

Collar is starting to tighten; Jazz adds to Bucks' recent swoon.
March 29, 2003... Byline: Tom Enlund SALT LAKE CITY _ The word "urgency" is one that has been prevalent in the Milwaukee Bucks' vocabulary during these closing days of the National Basketball Association's regular season. Is there time for them to get...

Haas, Harrington lead TPC; Woods five back.
March 29, 2003... Byline: Gary D'Amato PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. _ Jay Haas hasn't won since 1993 and Padraig Harrington has never won in the United States. Corey Pavin hasn't won in seven years, Fred Couples hasn't won in five and Jeff Maggert hasn't...

For Marquette, it's Jackson to the rescue.
March 28, 2003... Byline: Dale Hofmann MINNEAPOLIS _ Optimists who believe that everything works out for the best would point to Robert Jackson as 260 pounds of proof, but that's giving fate too much credit. Clearly the former Milwaukee Washington...

Baseball, storytelling fit like hand in a mitt.
March 28, 2003... Byline: Jim Higgins MILWAUKEE _ Like Joe Morgan and Dave Concepcion, Gene Alley and Bill Mazeroski, Alfonso Soriano and Derek Jeter, baseball and storytelling are a slick double-play combination. While the quantity and quality of...

Kendall's bogey-free round keeps pace at TPC.
March 28, 2003... Byline: Gary D'Amato PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. _ Skip Kendall is the first to admit he has neither the length nor the strength to play the TPC at Sawgrass Stadium Course from the rough. So he has a simple game plan: Stay out of it. ...

`Lucky' break: John Corbett dealt new hand with offbeat FX series.
March 28, 2003... Byline: Joanne Weintraub After playing the New Age-y Chris on "Northern Exposure," the snuggly Aidan on "Sex and the City" and the cuddly Ian in "My Big Fat Greek Wedding," an actor can't be blamed for wanting to get in touch with his...

101st Airborne sets standard for mass movement into enemy territory.
March 28, 2003... Byline: Katherine M. Skiba CAMP UDAIRI, Kuwait _ Soldiers with the 101st Airborne Division were ferried by helicopter into Iraq on Friday in an elaborate mission involving more than 200 aircraft. The division, created for the D-Day...

Dick Bennett leaving retirement for Washington State.
March 27, 2003... Byline: Jeff Potrykus MINNEAPOLIS _ Dick Bennett's retirement is over, less than three years after he abruptly walked away from the University of Wisconsin program. Bennett, who will turn 60 next month, will be named men's...

On a crash course: Redd sparks rally that falls short.
March 27, 2003... Byline: Tom Enlund DENVER _ Could it be that the Milwaukee Bucks are merely kidding themselves about making the National Basketball Association playoffs, even in the diluted Eastern Conference? If their 108-103 loss to the lowly...

`Somersault' by Kenzaburo Oe, translated by Philip Gabriel; Grove Press ($29.95).
March 27, 2003... Byline: John Debaun Guide and Patron are aging religious leaders in Japan, trapped in the debris of a religious movement they created and then renounced. In Kenzaburo Oe's first novel since he won the 1994 Nobel Prize for literature,...

Remembering Alan Kulwicki.
March 27, 2003... Byline: Dave Kallmann MILWAUKEE _ Remember the scene? On a foggy morning nearly 10 years ago, the transporter carrying a car Alan Kulwicki would never drive again makes a slow lap and then pulls away from Bristol Motor Speedway with...

The shape of Spring to come.
March 27, 2003... Byline: Catherine Fitzpatrick It's a Felix the Cat clock moment in fashion. A boomerang Formica, bouffant moment. It's parasol daiquiris at the Copa. Smoke gets in your eyes. Loopy monograms on the band's powder-blue tuxedo jackets....

Kendall regains form after personal problems.
March 27, 2003... Byline: Gary D'Amato PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. _ These guys are good, as the PGA Tour so often reminds us, but they're also human. So if you're wondering where Skip Kendall's game went in 2002, when he slipped to 101st on the money...

Kentucky's Smith, Wisconsin's Ryan face different obstacles.
March 26, 2003... Byline: Michael Hunt MINNEAPOLIS _ Mention his swing offense _ a system Bo Ryan claims to have invented during his halcyon days at UW-Platteville but one the Kentucky players say they run and simply call the "flex" _ and the Wisconsin...

Will Wade finally be Mr. Big Shot for Marquette.
March 26, 2003... Byline: Todd Rosiak MINNEAPOLIS _ It was a minuscule portion of what had otherwise been a breakout season. Still, Dwyane Wade replayed those same 15 seconds in his head for months afterward. The Marquette Golden Eagles trailed the...

A Penney for Wisconsin's winning thoughts.
March 26, 2003... Byline: Mark Stewart MINNEAPOLIS _ Were this some rookie, someone who hadn't been around the block a few times, there might be reason to worry. Kirk Penney? He has darn near been around the world. Wisconsin's senior guard can...

Taken to school: Spurs strut their stuff in win over Bucks.
March 26, 2003... Byline: Tom Enlund SAN ANTONIO _ The San Antonio Spurs staged a gala tribute to retiring center David Robinson Tuesday night at the SBC Center. If the Spurs continue to play with the focus and precision they have demonstrated since...

Hunter who mistakenly shot neighbor faces trial.
March 26, 2003... Byline: Meg Jones CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis. _ Michael Berseth saw a white-tailed deer, so he fired his gun at it. It was the muzzleloader season, and Berseth had not seen any deer all day. So when he saw two deer bounding away from him,...

Rivalry looms between Marquette, Wisconsin in Midwest Regional.
March 25, 2003... Byline: Dale Hofmann MILWAUKEE _ If they know what's good for them, Marquette's friends will be Kentucky's enemies Thursday night, but don't bet the tuition money on it. In the human experience, historical prejudice trumps...

Kentucky's talent runs deep as Wisconsin looms.
March 25, 2003... Byline: Mark Stewart MADISON, Wis. _ The talented, deep Kentucky Wildcats left Ohio coach Tim O'Shea wondering aloud whether their second unit wouldn't make for a good team in its own right. Tennessee forward Ron Slay, whose team...

Panthers head to Sweet 16 on a roll.
March 25, 2003... Byline: Todd Rosiak MILWAUKEE _ When No. 3-seed Marquette University gathers at midcourt for the opening tip-off of its Midwest Regional semifinal with No. 2-seed Pittsburgh on Thursday night, the Golden Eagles may feel as if they are...

Martha Burk: War makes Augusta stances stronger.
March 25, 2003... Byline: Don Walker Martha Burk, leading the charge to force the Augusta National Golf Club to admit women as members, says the war in Iraq has enhanced, rather than detracted, from her goal. And while the tone of her group's...

Brewers banking on entertainment.
March 24, 2003... Byline: Don Walker MILWAUKEE _ Balls and strikes. Throwing and catching. Hits and runs. This season, Milwaukee Brewers baseball also means karaoke, jugglers, game hosts, speed dating and cell phone contests. And fireworks, lots of...

Badgers.
March 24, 2003... Byline: Michael Hunt Wisconsin had just completed its 4-minute mile against Tulsa. The bus was idling for the short ride to the Spokane airport in advance of the long one that would ferry the Badgers home. But before they could...

Diener clan illustrates opposing events of the day.
March 24, 2003... Byline: Greg J. Borowski MILWAUKEE _ The way Travis Diener figures it, somewhere in the Persian Gulf, his cousin is doing his best to follow NCAA tournament results. Because as Marquette makes its run through the tournament, the...

`Lucky' break: John Corbett dealt new hand with offbeat FX series.
March 24, 2003... Byline: Joanne Weintraub After playing the New Age-y Chris on "Northern Exposure," the snuggly Aidan on "Sex and the City" and the cuddly Ian in "My Big Fat Greek Wedding," an actor can't be blamed for wanting to get in touch with his...

This time, Bucks take sting out of Hornets.
March 23, 2003... Byline: Charles F. Gardner MILWAUKEE _ George Karl appealed to his team's pride after its lopsided loss in New Orleans on Friday night. Presented with a second chance to get it right just 24 hours later Saturday night, the Milwaukee...

Some players have a little more to prove this year.
March 22, 2003... Byline: Drew Olson MILWAUKEE _ For five weeks, they've been working out under the sun in Florida and Arizona. Now, a group of major-league players will find themselves under a microscope. Here are is a team-by-team look at players...

Marquette spreads the wealth in overtime win over Missouri.
March 22, 2003... Byline: Dale Hofmann INDIANAPOLIS _ Steered by a sophomore, led by a junior and saved by a freshman. That's not just a basketball team Marquette University is sending to the Sweet 16, it's a blue-ribbon commission. If the Golden...

Thrilling win over Tulsa will live in Wisconsin lore.
March 22, 2003... Byline: Michael Hunt SPOKANE, Wash. _ One shining moment? Forget about the sappy NCAA tournament theme song. All Bo Ryan wanted was 3 or 4 good minutes of redemption, no matter how they delivered, because he was through living on Tulsa...

Wisconsin wins with a second left.
March 22, 2003... Byline: Mark Stewart SPOKANE, Wash. _ It was the biggest shot of Freddie Owens' life, and he couldn't even get a good view of it. "When I let it go, I couldn't see the basket," Owens said. "I think someone flew at me, and when I...

Bucks no match for Hornets.
March 22, 2003... Byline: Tom Enlund NEW ORLEANS _ Maybe that victory in New Jersey on Wednesday night was only a mirage. It sure seemed that way Friday as, a mere 48 hours after playing one of their more efficient defensive games of the season in a...

King of the boneheads: Cavaliers' Davis gets bashed.
March 22, 2003... Byline: Tom Enlund MILWAUKEE _ Just when we think we have seen it all in the zany world that is the National Basketball Association, along comes Cleveland Cavaliers guard Ricky Davis. What a beauty! The Cavaliers last week fined...

Clock ticking on overtime; Packers will protect their own at NFL meetings.
March 22, 2003... Byline: Tom Silverstein MILWAUKEE _ While some teams will be working overtime to settle their rosters, others will be discussing overtime when the National Football League owners meetings commence Monday in Phoenix. The Green Bay...

Marquette's Diener takes fearless approach.
March 21, 2003... Byline: Dale Hofmann INDIANAPOLIS _ Your son comes home smiling through a split lip after taking on the toughest kid in the school. When you call him for dinner, he's looking at you from the top of a 40-foot tree or racing his sled...

Wisconsin can turn it up when necessary.
March 21, 2003... Byline: Michael Hunt SPOKANE, Wash. _ It is generally true that a basketball team will adopt the personality of its coach. No better example can be found than in Milwaukee, where the schizophrenic play of the Bucks can usually be traced...

Wis-Milwaukee's Tucker consoles coach and team after heartbreaking loss.
March 21, 2003... Byline: Dan Manoyan INDIANAPOLIS _ Clay Tucker is what the term "senior leadership" is all about. When Dylan Page's shot rolled harmlessly off the rim at the RCA Dome on Thursday night, allowing Notre Dame to breathe a sigh of...

Wisconsin wins to meet Tulsa in second round.
March 21, 2003... Byline: Mark Stewart SPOKANE, Wash. _ Unable to lash out at all the so-called experts predicting their downfall Thursday night, the Wisconsin Badgers let their play do the talking. It spoke volumes. The fifth-seeded Badgers not...

Wisconsin-Milwaukee's upset bid just rolls off.
March 21, 2003... Byline: Dan Manoyan INDIANAPOLIS _ Notre Dame is the school with all of the tradition. Wisconsin-Milwaukee is the school with none. Fortunately, this wasn't a game to see whose trophy case was larger. It was a game to see which team...

Marquette advances, but trouble spots exist.
March 20, 2003... Byline: Dale Hofmann INDIANAPOLIS _ Travis Diener had a rubber sleeve on his leg and a team on his back Thursday. The sophomore point guard has grown up to become the all-day, everyday tough guy on Marquette University's basketball team,...

Diener steps up, shoots down Holy Cross.
March 20, 2003... Byline: Todd Rosiak INDIANAPOLIS _ Unable to fall asleep in his hotel room early Thursday, Travis Diener instead turned his thoughts to Marquette University's upcoming NCAA tournament basketball game against Holy Cross. "I was...

Spokane not exactly bracket heaven, but participants will take it.
March 19, 2003... Byline: Michael Hunt SPOKANE, Wash. _ Think for the moment of the NCAA basketball tournament as a family reunion. Occasionally there is an obscure place where the idiot cousin, the blowhard uncle, the black-sheep aunt is diverted in the...

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March 19, 2003... Byline: Mark Stewart SPOKANE, Wash. _ Bo Ryan called it two years ago. The head coach at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee at the time, Ryan watched Wauwatosa East beat Milwaukee King in the sectional semifinals at the Klotsche...

Bucks turn into road warriors in New Jersey.
March 19, 2003... Byline: Tom Enlund EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. _ It has been painfully obvious over the past few weeks that the Milwaukee Bucks have been searching for an answer on the defensive end of the court. Something _ anything _ that will stop the...

Unwrapping some of the best and least.
March 19, 2003... Byline: Mary-Liz Shaw Any story about the nuances of chocolate would be incomplete without a taste test. Our informal tests covered dark chocolates; semisweet and milk chocolates, including some flavored; and organic or fair trade...

Chocolate recipes from chile truffles to devil's food cake.
March 19, 2003... Here are some recipes that call for luxurious chocolate. TINA LUU'S POTS DE CREME Tina Luu of the Art Institute of California uses Valrhona's Manjari bittersweet chocolate and chai tea to create this unusual twist on an old French...

World of chocolate in your hand.
March 19, 2003... Byline: Mary-Liz Shaw With the possible exceptions of wine and coffee, there may not be another foodstuff on Earth that is at once as universal and divisive as chocolate. Throughout its long, delicious history, this "brown gold," as...

`More sober' Academy Awards show planned.
March 18, 2003... Byline: Duane Dudek The show will go on as planned, but Sunday's Academy Awards will be a "more sober affair" in light of the pending war with Iraq, Oscar telecast producer Gil Cates said Tuesday. The "splashy" red carpet arrivals...

Holy Cross enters NCAA Tournament on a roll.
March 18, 2003... Byline: Todd Rosiak MILWAUKEE _ Tom Crean has never been one to underestimate an opponent, especially in the NCAA tournament when his team's next game could very well be its last. But when that opponent happens to be Holy Cross _ a...

On paper, it appears the Wildcats will rule the 2003 NCAA men's basketball tournament.
March 18, 2003... Byline: Jeff Potrykus MILWAUKEE _ Whether you prefer Tubby Smith's Kentucky Wildcats, who have won 23 consecutive games, or Lute Olson's Arizona Wildcats, who may boast the most overall talent, is immaterial. You risk ridicule,...

Packer says there's nothing to C-USA flap.
March 18, 2003... Byline: Bob Wolfley MILWAUKEE _ A week ago Sunday, during halftime of the CBS telecast of the Duke-North Carolina game, studio analyst Greg Gumbel asked Billy Packer which mid-major conferences he thought might get multiple teams in the...

Weber State's Boyette could be bracket-buster.
March 18, 2003... Byline: Mark Stewart MADISON, Wis. _ Those who stayed up for the late-night broadcast last season heard first-hand why Weber State's Jermaine Boyette is a special player. Playing against Wisconsin at the Big Island Invitational in...

Wisconsin-Milwaukee confident against Notre Dame.
March 18, 2003... Byline: Dan Manoyan MILWAUKEE _ For nearly a week, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Panthers sat and wondered who their next opponent would be and Sunday's announcement of the NCAA pairings did not totally settle the issue in their...

Uncle Sam offers incentives to attract college graduates.
March 18, 2003... Byline: Corissa Jansen and Scott Willliams MILWAUKEE _ Ranell Washington studies finance at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and he has not given much thought to trading his diploma for a pair of dogtags after graduation. But...

Gray wolf population increases, status lowered to threatened.
March 18, 2003... Byline: Lee Bergquist MILWAUKEE _ Marking a major milestone in its recovery, federal protections for the gray wolf were eased by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Tuesday. The agency downgraded the wolf's status from...

Moderate alcohol consumption benefits the brain, study suggests.
March 18, 2003... Byline: John Fauber MILWAUKEE _ Already proving good for the heart, light to moderate alcohol use also may be good for the brain. In the strongest study to date, people who consumed one to six drinks a week had 54 percent less risk...

Meet the `Greta Garbo of fly fishing'.
March 18, 2003... Byline: Bob Riepenhoff MEST ALLIS, Wis. _ Among collectors and fly fishing aficionados, she is known as the Greta Garbo of fly tying. "She just wants to be left alone," Dan Basore explained. Basore was talking about Helen Shaw, a...

No more underdog roles for Bluejays.
March 17, 2003... Byline: Jeff Potrykus Coach Dana Altman has the Creighton University men's basketball program back where he thinks it belongs, in the NCAA tournament for the fifth consecutive season. At the same time, the Bluejays are entering...

Marquette coach gets to match wits with his mentor.
March 17, 2003... Byline: Todd Rosiak MILWEAUKEE _ Teacher vs. pupil. The scene has been replayed on the sidelines plenty of times before in college basketball and on Thursday morning in the opening round of the NCAA tournament in Indianapolis, it's...

Karl looks for Bucks to find `mental urgency'.
March 17, 2003... Byline: Tom Enlund NEW YORK _ Among the messages scrawled on the Milwaukee Bucks' locker-room board before their game against the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden on Sunday night were the words "Kill the monkey." Say what?...

Glove looks to fit in in Milwaukee.
March 17, 2003... Byline: Gary D'Amato Defense is the central theme in Gary Payton's life. He learned how to defend himself while growing up in a rough-and-tumble neighborhood in Oakland, Calif. His defense on the basketball court became his career...

New, unknown germ may be causing mystery illness.
March 17, 2003... Byline: Marilynn Marchione MILWAUKEE, Wis. _ A new, previously unidentified germ is likely to be what's causing a growing international outbreak of severe pneumonia, health officials said Monday. If so, it would be the first novel...

Nominees and winners recall golden moments of Oscar night.
March 17, 2003... Byline: Duane Dudek The words "entertainment history" surely are an oxymoron, but after 75 years, the Oscars genuinely qualify as an institution of social and cultural significance. And they got that way because of one of the most...

Millions could be saved from anthrax with advance medicine, study says.
March 17, 2003... Byline: Marilynn Marchione MILWAUKEE, Wis. _ As the nation seems to edge closer to war with Iraq, new research shows how deadly an airborne anthrax attack could be on an American city, especially if officials are slow to detect it and to...

Mouthing off lands comedian Wanda Sykes a TV show all her own.
March 17, 2003... Byline: Joanne Weintraub Wanda Sykes' first paying job was a little unusual. It was something like those subsidies farmers get for not growing tobacco. When she was a kid growing up in Maryland and company was coming, her parents...

This doctor's on front lines against illness.
March 16, 2003... Byline: Katherine M. Skiba CAMP VICTORY, KUWAIT _ With soldiers sneezing, sniffling and hacking, you wonder: Is there a doctor in the house? Yes, in fact, there is. Meet 49-year-old Robert Ruiz, a flight surgeon for the 4th...

Uecker's many pals are outta here with joy.
March 15, 2003... Byline: Drew Olson PHOENIX _ New York Yankees manager Joe Torre has spent his spring answering questions about Derek Jeter's nocturnal habits, David Wells' publishing exploits and what outfielder Hideki Matsui had for lunch. (The...

Conference tournaments can be a detriment for some.
March 15, 2003... Byline: Dale Hofmann MILWAUKEE _ Hearing thousands of Kentuckians chant "U-A-B!" was a high point in two days of watching bad conference tournament basketball this week. You wondered if they followed along with the cheerleaders, or if...

Bucks no match for Lakers in second half.
March 15, 2003... Byline: Tom Enlund MILWAUKEE _ By the sound of things, the Milwaukee Bucks carried a "basic, no-frills mission plan'' into their game against the Los Angeles Lakers on Saturday night at the Bradley Center. "Play defense," said guard...

Knicks make one last run; faltering Bucks, Magic provide hope.
March 15, 2003... Byline: Tom Enlund MILWAUKEE _ Think the playoff-hopeful New York Knicks haven't been scoreboard watching just a little bit? The Knicks were partaking in a team charity bowling tournament Wednesday when a member of the team's...

Big Ten's top-seeded Wisconsin falls to Ohio State.
March 14, 2003... Byline: Mark Stewart CHICAGO _ Almost 6 minutes were left in Wisconsin's Big Ten tournament quarterfinal game against Ohio State on Friday when Devin Harris knocked away a pass that could have changed the Badgers' fortunes. It...

Life expectancy in the United States reaches all-time high.
March 14, 2003... Byline: Marilynn Marchione MILWAUKEE _ Life expectancy has reached an all-time high of 77.2 years in the United States, with men and women and blacks and whites setting new records, figures released Friday show. But in a sign of the...