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Last week the 24-year-old Krayzelburg called on both aspects of his background to win three gold medals and lead an underrated U.S. team to an astounding 33 medals in the pool. In a week in which some big fish got reeled in--Australian sensation Ian Thorpe, Dutch wonderboy Pieter van den Hoogenband and the Russian Rocket Alexander Popov each found himself bettered in one race or another--nobody caught Krayzelburg. Indeed, after a rough start, the rest of the U.S. team outswam the favored Australians, who performed before raucous hometown crowds. Swimming is the Olympics in Australia...
Schools of fish, birds, and smaller marine organisms vanished in the wake of solid waste matter and oxygen-depleting pollution in the water. Normally bluish-green, relatively transparent 30-feet deep harbor water had been turned murky and brown...
...them, turned out to cheer her on over the suitable-for-framing course that started with a swim in Sydney Harbor. She looked to be in good shape there--Australian athletes perform best when wet. Plying waters ringed by shark-repelling sonar devices, Jones avoided becoming fish breakfast, then took the lead in the bike race. But she could not repel Switzerland's Brigitte McMahon in the run. The Swiss held her off in a desperate finish after they had traveled a total of nearly 32 miles in two hours...
...Adams' novels be stretched? Babel Fish--a device he describes that can be inserted into the ear to give the listener instant translation of all languages--doesn't exist. But h2g2 has licensed the Babel Fish name to a service run by search engine Alta Vista, which offers computer-based automatic translations of text in seven languages. There are plans to use that service to provide multiple-language versions of h2g2 within the next year...
...Again, nothing conclusive there. The New York Times points out that the sale was questioned by environmentally oriented government departments such as the EPA and the Fish and Wildlife Service, but that the DOE went ahead under pressure to meet a congressional deadline for the sale. To be sure, it was Newt Gingrich's Republican revolutionaries who revived plans to sell Elk Hills back in 1995, and they congratulated themselves over its sale as a vindication of the Reagan legacy...