RELENTLESS HEAT WAVE--A homeless man wears a hood to shade his face from the intense sun, as he sleeps on a bench, in Columbus, Ohio, on Tuesday, July 27, 1999. The East and Mid-West continue to swelter during the summer's latest heat-wave. (JACK KUSTRON/photoj.com)

THE NOT SO THIN MAN--Life doesn't exactly imitate Art as a pedestrian walks near the Ohio Theatre marquee advertising the classic movie "The Thin Man," in Columbus, Ohio, on Tuesday, July 27, 1999. (JACK KUSTRON/photoj.com)

WANTS TO LOOK AT TAKEOVER BID--Rep. David Goodman, R-Bexley, gestures during a news conference where he called for an investigation of NiSource Inc.'s hostile takeover bid for Columbia Energy Group, at the Ohio Statehouse, in Columbus, Ohio, on Tuesday, July 27, 1999. (JACK KUSTRON/photoj.com)