Word: epicent
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Until the present wave of backpackers began to arrive, the most notable visitor to the area of Agnes Water, an idyllic village on Australia's Queensland coast, was James Cook, who sailed by 238 years ago. During his epic journey of discovery Down Under, the then Lieutenant Cook passed the headland that locals now call "the Point" and on May 24, 1770, he anchored H.M. Bark Endeavour just under two miles (3.2 km) off the coast and led a small landing party ashore. They poked around what is now the burgeoning (and quaintly named) Town of 1770, at the mouth...
...resentment dissipate? "No," Lessing says. "I can't remember a time I wasn't fighting her." In the book, she recounts their epic battles, including one triggered by a letter her mother wrote accusing her of being a prostitute. On another occasion, her mother phoned Lessing's employer and outed her as a member of the Communist Party. "She was a woman who shouldn't have had children, and she didn't in the life I have given her," Lessing says of the novella. "I'm hoping the fact that women can get jobs makes it impossible for this horrible...
...small, nearly anonymous moment between two people in a stadium crowded with more than 13,000. But it proves that the pressure-cooker of epic sporting struggles - when time seems to slow down, and everything takes on a sharper resolution - is as intense as any life-or-death situation. You need to tell someone how you really feel...
Second Set: From across the court, I can see into the TV commentator's booth. John McEnroe - whose five-set epic against Bjorn Borg in 1980 was, until this match, considered the gold standard in Wimbledon final history - is gesticulating wildly, re-enacting Nadal's backhand with such eagerness you worry he might fall from his booth onto his cherished court below...
...political winner, however, is Uribe, Washington's key ally in Latin America, whose campaign against the FARC has made him perhaps the most popular President in the nation's history. The FARC was once respected by many Colombians for fighting the nation's epic inequality, but today it is viewed by most as a mafia. Betancourt's mother, Yolanda Pulecio, told TIME earlier this year that she feared Uribe's bellicose policy would mean interminable captivity for Betancourt, who looked emaciated and alarmingly despondent in her most recent photographs. "I'm killing myself every day," she said, "wondering why dialogue...