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...competitor, New Zealand, for most of their 24-mile match race on the choppy Indian Ocean off Fremantle, the port for Perth in Western Australia. But then the Fremantle Doctor, a blustery afternoon wind so-called because it cures the 100 degreesF temperatures of the antipodal summer onshore, blew in and riffled the pages of the record book. The fiber glass- hulled New Zealand, dubbed the "Plastic Fantastic," surged ahead on the wind and crossed the finish line 15 seconds ahead of America II, ending one of sport's most venerable records. For the first time in 135 years...
...Privately, he tells Buswell that he is even louder than the organ -- to no avail. Finally, at a Sunday rehearsal, Barber dresses Buswell down: "Look, your pianissimo is not our pianissimo. Turn it way down." In the hallway afterward, Buswell, abashed, tells the other singers, "I guess I really blew it in there...
...plenty. Most of the furor that the Boesky case has caused so far comes from the SEC's Nov. 14 judgment against the arbitrage superstar. That, in turn, was based on the relationship investigators uncovered between Boesky and Dennis Levine, the former managing director of Drexel Burnham who first blew open the scandal when he was charged last May with illegal trading in 54 stocks...
...surprise the seance flopped. No handcuffs opened. No lights dimmed. No furniture levitated. No unearthly dust blew through the room. What is more, the Houdini contacted by Monroe bungled the answers to questions posed by members of the inner circle. "What was your favorite dessert?" Marie Blood, the great magician's niece, wanted to know. "Strawberry," gasped Monroe. "Wrong," chided Mrs. Blood, who traveled all the way from Pinehurst, N.C., for the occasion. "It was bread pudding," she informed the audience, "with Bing cherries...
With his conclusions, Witten had inadvertently provided Ostriker with the agent he needed to produce the giant voids. "When I first saw Ed's paper, in 1985," Ostriker says, "it blew my mind." Reason: a vibrating, current- carrying loop is a radio transmitter, and if the current is large enough, the ultralow-frequency radio waves it emits will be incredibly powerful -- strong enough to push surrounding gases and dust incredible distances away from the loop. With Witten and Graduate Student Chris Thompson, Ostriker went to work calculating the effects of the waves. "Again and again," he says, "we thought...