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...blithely handled. In the finals, it was Kevin Curren, a decade Becker's senior, who was a bundle of nerves as his percentage of successful first serves (47%) proved. He also seemed befuddled by an opponent who could go all out for everything because he had youthful energy to burn and nothing to save it for. As Becker's quarter-final victim, Henri LeConte says, "His age is his strength, 'cause he never thinks about the pressure. He just plays, hits the ball, wins, says thank you and goodbye...
...MINIMIZE CLUTTER Move digital photos and audio and video files to an external hard drive like the Iomega, below left. Or burn them on CDs or DVDs. Under your browser's Options menu, limit space for temporary files. That cache saves pages you have viewed for quicker access later; 50 MB is plenty...
Tuesday, April 12. Camille Paglia discusses Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-Three of the World’s Best Poems. 6 p.m. Brattle Theater. Free tickets obtained at Harvard Book Store...
...buffel grass has migrated west from the rangelands of Texas, bringing a new threat, fire. To conserve water, most desert species in the Southwest grow far apart, making it hard for fires to spread. Buffel grass grows easily in dry soil, forming a carpet of dry, flammable stalks that burns very hot after a lightning strike and can engulf cacti, yucca, ocotillo and the paloverde trees. "None of the native plants have fire adaptation. If they burn, they die," says Tom Van Devender, a senior research scientist at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson. "If there is recurring fire...
...shootings. People gathered at a gymnasium, forming circles around circles. The families of the dead sat in the inner circle, surrounded by a semicircle of drummers who were in turn surrounded by the rest of the community. Tribal elders lit sage, sweet grass and tobacco, and let them burn until the gym was full of smoke. Then the drummers started tapping out the traditional song of healing. Crying and wailing ensued. No one in the tribe knew how one of their own could have strayed so far from the traditional path. The rest of the night was spent discussing, often...