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...Here's the scene: The interview area of the Utah Olympic Oval, downstairs from the speedskating rink, where the press waits for athletes and coaches to emerge from their events and talk (or not) to waiting reporters, producers and broadcasters. A metal barrier stands between the reporters and the competitors' pathway - a separation that just barely keeps athletes from being mauled. If there ever was such a thing as decorum among the press, it's shot to hell the minute a hot interview subject comes into the room...
...near the athletes' entrance, sweeping through the press corps as it turns into a roar. "Casey's here!" This is Casey FitzRandolph, the American who's currently in first place, and who also happens to be one of Wotherspoon's best friends. Just as he stops directly across the barrier from me, I notice that FitzRandolph looks pretty dejected for someone who's got a good chance of winning a medal...
Gaining permission to dig the tunnel represents the final barrier to completion of the government center. And Harvard officials insist the tunnel is crucial to the project’s going forward...
...physical wonder from Anchorage named Alan Alborn (nicknamed, of course, Airborn). Alborn, 21, is 5 ft. 11 in. and 130 lbs., as strong as steel, and he's been jumping since he was 9. His fear of flying kept him from early greatness, but he has finally broken that barrier. With a "frog concept" technique that has him squatting low on the inrun and then exploding high at takeoff, he can now soar more than 200 m. With the home crowd pumping him up-a big factor for jumpers-he could bring home the team's first medal...
...Charles Lindbergh--who bought Illiec, off France's Brittany coast, in 1938 after his infant son was murdered--have long acquired private islands for safety and privacy. In the 1990s, as the millionaire club became far less exclusive, island purchases grew into a worldwide market, from Australia's Great Barrier Reef to the Indian Ocean. Off the coast of Georgia, Moeser can sell you 2,600-acre Hampton Island, with a Greek Revival plantation house, for $16 million. And in the frigid waters off Nova Scotia, Vladi Private Islands, based in Hamburg, Germany, offers properties like fir-forested, 2-acre...