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Holzapfel, you see, does not view religion as a passive act. Famously, when the English concentrator rowed at the 2003 CRASH-B’s, a colorful indoor rowing championship, he went under the moniker Kevin McHale, for the great Celtics big man, of the group “LFJA”—that is, Live for Jesus Always...
...second-place finish at that 2003 edition of the CRASH-B’s and his top-10 finish last year are but the smallest of samples from his lengthy resume. From his time rowing with the first boat of the virtually undefeated heavyweights of the Class of 2004, he also boasts first-place triumphs at Eastern Sprints, the Harvard-Yale Regatta and England’s Henley Royal Regatta in addition to a national championship...
...make a movie about a rock-'n'-roll icon who didn't die young? The fables of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, Johnny Ace, Eddie Cochran and Sam Cooke provided their own curtain lines: a plane or a car crash, a gunshot wound. Their early deaths at the top of their game built little legends--tragic portraits suitable for filming...
...there's a lot more going on here than meets the eye. Spokane is actually a radical experiment in urban wireless technology, a live-in laboratory where city-employed nerds are crash-testing the wireless technotopia of the future. All of downtown Spokane, including the park that I was sitting in, is a massive wi-fi hot spot, a whole neighborhood enveloped in an invisible field of high-volume Internet access that covers 100 city blocks. The same way some libraries and coffeehouses offer wireless Internet access, all of downtown Spokane is a wireless surfing zone...
...first sound Zahara Abdulkarim heard when she woke that last morning in her village was the drone of warplanes circling overhead. Then came gunshots and screams and the sickening crash of bombs ripping through her neighbors' mud-and-thatch huts, gouging craters into the dry earth. When Abdulkarim, 25, ran outside, she was confronted by two men in military uniform, one wielding a knife, the other a whip. They were members, she says, of the Arab militia known as the Janjaweed, which over the past 18 months has slaughtered tens of thousands of black Africans like Abdulkarim across the western...