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...next week's Victorian Urn Regatta on the Charles, the unofficial New England fall championship for the coed and women's squads, the women will return to the usual format of fleet racing. The crowds may not compare to those at the Head, but the stakes will be just as high...
...performance is definitely not indicative of how we will do next week," Murray said. "Fleet racing is a totally different sport...
Saturday will mark the first time the women will race at home with their new fleet. The sailing team completed an $80,000 fundraising drive to get their new boats...
...Yamamah Palace complex in Riyadh to a "cottage" four times the size of the White House in Marbella, Spain. He owns several jets and yachts, all with gold bathroom faucets; his main yacht, a $60 million craft, is escorted by a vessel that carries Stinger antiaircraft missiles. His fleet of air-conditioned Rolls-Royces, Cadillacs and Mercedes would clog Rodeo Drive...
...into the fuel tank of the space shuttle Columbia, the countdown was halted and the flight scrubbed -- for the third time in just over three months. "We do not consider that the vehicle is safe to fly," declared shuttle director Robert Crippen, who earlier this summer grounded the entire fleet when leaks turned up in the shuttle Atlantis as well. NASA has not been able to get a shuttle off the ground since April, when it launched the now crippled Hubble telescope. Though shuttle engineers once talked of 24 flights a year, so far NASA has managed only three...