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...Time has only proved Hines right. Now 22, and in his debut season in Formula One - becoming the first black driver to make it onto the grid in motor racing's blue-ribbon championship - Hamilton sits third in the drivers' standings. In the season opener in Australia last month, he steered his way into third place, the best finish by a rookie in more than a decade. Three weeks later, his McLaren car sped past - and then fended off - two frustrated Ferraris to take second place in Malaysia...
...only a couple of years after his karting debut as an eight-year-old that Hamilton raced to his first British championship. And countless more karting titles followed before he made the switch to cars in 2001. En route to winning the entry-level British Formula Renault series in 2003, he "made seasoned drivers look silly," says Tony Shaw, Hamilton's then team manager at Manor Motorsport. Hamilton's raw, natural speed and canny race craft nudged him closer to the big leagues. Hamilton's "understanding of when and where to overtake and how to take advantage of a situation...
...first game for the Boston Red Sox against Kansas City on April 5. The Red Sox renovated their press box to accommodate journalists following the Japanese superstar 10 Number of strikeouts "Dice-K" recorded in his first start, one less than the team record for a major league debut...
...chance to vie for doorbox space with Harvard’s other publications. Suffering from insufficient funds, the organization was unable to doordrop its winter 2005 magazine, which was instead sold in the Harvard Coop at $2.95 a pop. And this was not only Freeze’s debut issue—it was the single issue the organization has been able to produce to date...
...next time you’re at the airport security checkpoint, your luggage may not be the only thing that gets X-rayed. As reported in a recent New York Times article, the SmartCheck body scanner, the newest innovation in transportation security, made its debut at the Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix earlier this year. The scanner can see under travelers’ clothes to detect if they are carrying anything dangerous on board. But before you freak out, you should know the facts. The SmartCheck scanner causes negligible harm and may greatly improve airport security...