The Tennessee Titans were an 8-8 team for the last three years and in 1999 they were playing in their fourth home stadium in as many years. Despite recent history, team owner Bud Adams was optimistic last summer saying, “I’d be real surprised if they don’t play outstanding football.” For certain, the Titans are not as big a surprise to be in Super Bowl XXXIV as the Rams yet they are a decided underdog in Sunday’s game at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta....

And The Nominees Are… See who got nominated in the major categories and read biographies of the nominees. And The Winner Is… Find all the Oscar winners, past and present. Do you remember who won in all the major categories last year? And The Host Is… Seth MacFarlane is hosting the Oscars this year. Read a bio on him as well as past hosts of the Academy Awards. And The Answer Is… Check out our quizzes, crossword, trivia and features to test and expand your knowledge of the Oscars....

In making this compact, the Pilgrims drew upon two strong traditions. One was the notion of a social contract, which dated back to biblical times. The other was the belief in covenants. Puritans believed that covenants existed not only between God and man, but also between man and man. The Mayflower Compact is such a covenant in that the settlers agreed to form a government and be bound by its rules....

Russia enters the conflict between Georgia and a breakaway region, South Ossetia, with troops and tanks pouring into South Ossetia to support the region in August. Russia intensifies its involvement, moving troops into Abkhazia, another breakaway region, and launching airstrikes at Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. Dozens are killed, hundreds are wounded, and thousands of people in South Ossetia flee their homes. President Medvedev orders an end to military action in Georgia, although sporadic fighting continues....

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Nonrenewable Sources of Energy Most of the energy we use comes from fossil fuels, such as coal, natural gas and petroleum. Uranium is another nonrenewable source, but it is not a fossil fuel. Uranium is converted to a fuel and used in nuclear power plants. Once these natural resources are used up, they are gone forever. The process of gathering these fuels can be harmful to the biomes from which they come....

You can find the domain in an email address after an @ sign. The email address for the First Lady, for example, is first.lady@whitehouse.gov. You can see that “whitehouse.gov” is the domain. The ending of a domain tells you what type it is: Many countries have an official extension or country code that appears at the end of a URL (website address) or email address. The extension identifies where the host website or network is located....

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Doubles: 1. Sebastien Lareau & Daniel Nestor, CAN def. 2. Todd Woodbridge & Mark Woodforde, AUS 5-7, 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (7-2); 3. Alex Corretja & Albert Costa, SPA def. David Adams & John-Laffinie De Jager, RSA 2-6, 6-4, 6-3. WOMEN Singles: 1. Venus Williams, USA def. 2. Elena Dementieva, RUS 6-2, 6-4; 3. Monica Seles, USA def. Jelena Dokic, AUS, 6-1, 6-4. Doubles: 1. Serena Williams & Venus Williams, USA def....

Then, in the early-to-mid-14th century, large mechanical clocks began to appear in the towers of several large Italian cities. These clocks that were weight-driven and regulated by a verge-and-foliot escapement. Like water flow, the rate was difficult to regulate. Another advance was the invention of spring-powered clocks between 1500 and 1510 by Peter Henlein of Nuremberg. They slowed down as the mainspring unwound. In 1656, Christiaan Huygens, a Dutch scientist, made the first pendulum clock, regulated by a mechanism with a “natural” period of oscillation....

Baseball fans can expect more outrageous numbers from the home run record breakers next week when some of their most important home-run balls, including McGwire’s #70 and Sosa’s #66, go up for sale at what is being billed as “the sports memorabilia auction of the century.” On Tuesday in New York City, fans who missed out on catching a historic home-run ball and high-rolling collectors from around the world will converge on Madison Square Garden where New York auction house Guernsey’s will host “The Baseballs of 1998”, the year’s most talked about sale....