Cameron rides wave of euphoria

"I don't think that everyone gets to experience a day like that. But I wish everyone in the world could experience one day like that."

That's not going to happen. But it did for Cameron, who went metaphorical in trying to describe the feeling.

"I was like a willow tree in south Georgia, hanging out in the wind," he said. "My mind was clear. I had no worries."

Before those four at-bats, he could have had plenty of worries. He had one RBI in two weeks, four hits in his previous 32 at-bats. He had been having trouble with his vision. But baseball, more than anything, is a mind game, and it was the mind that needed to refocus.

"My visualization went blank," Cameron said. "I rebooted my mind. I was like a kid out there. A kid has no future. A kid has no past."

Zen master Mike.  

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Enlisting Data Seized in Raids, Israel Widens an Effort to Implicate Arafat in Terrorism

"I don't know how much of this is true, I'm sure some of it is," said one senior American official. "But even if it is true, at the end of the day, Israel cannot choose the Palestinians' leaders and it must deal with the Palestinian Authority."

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My God, it's full of stars!

Thousands of galaxies, actually.

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via USS Clueless

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