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Following the Harvard men's lacrosse team this year was like riding the world's fastest roller coaster--just when you thought the Crimson had cleared its worst hair-raising drop, it slowly climbed up an even steeper hill and went screaming down into even more nauseating depths...
America's oldest University is one of the few examples of stability in one of the fastest changing--and most exclusive--retail enclaves in the northeast...
Where Gilmartin is today is atop Merck & Co., the fastest-growing of the world's major pharmaceutical companies. Since joining Merck as CEO in June of 1994, Gilmartin has overseen an epic turnaround in the century-old giant. Last year, he led the $114 billion company to 45 percent return to shareholders, and Business Week ranked Merck number one in its industry--and sixth overall--among the Standard & Poor's 500 corporations...
...wakeboarding has its own magazine, a pro circuit and enough converts to proclaim itself among the fastest-growing sports in the country. It even has its own Tiger Woods: Parks Bonifay, 15, of Lake Alfred, Fla. As his mother dried him off after he won the wakeboarding gold medal at the 1996 X Games sponsored by ESPN, Bonifay declared his victory "the best moment of my life." The kid, like his sport, has still bigger things ahead. He defends his title in June...
What are the standouts among the loopy score? Superman: The Escape, which opened--after a year's delay to get all the kinks out--at Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, Calif. It is the tallest (415 ft.) and fastest (100 m.p.h.) roller coaster ever built. Chang, which opened in April in Louisville's Kentucky Kingdom, claims the "tallest vertical loop for any roller coaster" (121 ft.), while a new ride 200 ft. tall at Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom in Allentown, Pa., is distinguishing itself as "the tallest, longest and fastest steel roller coaster on the East Coast." The Great...