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Growing up in Johannesburg, Els showed promise in tennis, rugby and cricket, as well as golf. When Els at 14 beat Mickelson for the Junior World Golf championship, his father, who owned a trucking company, decided to scrap the tennis court in the backyard and build a putting green. Following high school, Els spent two years in the army, then turned pro. But it wasn't until after a post-party car accident that Els decided to take golf seriously. "I wasn't living right and just felt like it was time to get focused, stop the bull...
Roger Rosenblatt's conclusion on the basis of the Pathfinder mission to Mars [VIEWPOINT, July 14] is: "We are alone in the universe." That makes about as much sense as saying, "There are no elephants in my backyard; therefore there are no elephants elsewhere." Based on the two planets we know best, you could say there's a 50% chance of finding life on any given planet. Common sense and mathematics dictate that in a universe of trillions of star systems, the conditions for life could be rare and still occur millions of times. If it could happen here...
...tucked into every cabinet, along with a blender and even a funnel. In the basement, snap-shots were tacked on the walls featuring hordes of white-hatted students--presumably the boys--tossing back pitchers with their chums. The stereo system had suffered severe beer-related injuries. In the neglected backyard, amidst scattered beer bottles and broken glass, was a full-sized counter-shaped bar, overturned and rotting on its side. And, in the living room, we found a printed invitation from "Craig, Sean, and Derrick" that read "Come on down too [sic] quench your thirst.... The time has come...
...bedroom doors, where he would only find it several months later--after prolonged hangovers which would prevent him from ever suspecting anyone but Craig could have wrote it. And our most sophisticated plan involved leaving the house absolutely spotless but throwing all of the beds into the backyard. The scene unfolds...
...five contemplate mattress-choked backyard...