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Home fans have learned to expect Smith to score from under the basket. Smith has patented the "gymnastic layup": team-mates feed the ball to the fleet forward who waits--apparently out of position--underneath the net. In one quick motion, Smith arches her back and releases the ball, banking it against the boards and into the webbing. She has been so successful with this shot that recently B.U. put three players against Smith to block her from getting inside...
...picked to play the fictitious sheik, Kambir Abdul Rahman. Variously portrayed as being from Oman, Lebanon or the United Arab Emirates, the impostor set up temporary residence in a 62-ft. yacht that docked in several posh Florida marinas. As the flag vessel of the FBI'S secret fleet, the cruiser, seized by customs officials from marijuana smugglers, was first named the Left Hand and later the Corsair. "It gleamed with the predictable varnished parquet decks, teak paneling-and a wide variety of eavesdropping and recording devices. The landlubberly FBI crew who manned it, however, promptly blew...
...more. With the weight limitations, the start has become all-important; four-hundredths of a second of extra speed through the first 50 meters can become a full second's advantage by the bottom of the run. As a result, today's bobsledders are chosen for being fleet, not fat. None have been more shrewdly picked than Willie Davenport, 36, who won a gold medal in the high hurdles in the 1968 Summer Games. Last fall the bobsledders persuaded him that his speed might help the team. Says Davenport: "Why, the first time I'd ever seen...
...noblest life to have lived, she radiates a great and unforgettable purity of spirit. The final scene in this segment is a visual stunner. The rising wind whips the garment about Clytemnestra's knees. Alone, burnt-eyed, she raises an arm as she watches the Greek fleet under full sail, a Botticelli Venus transformed into the mater dolorosa...
...men?basically members of the Marine Corps's 1st and 3rd divisions and the Army's 82nd and 101st airborne divisions?to a Rapid Deployment Force that eventually will be able to respond quickly to emergencies anywhere in the world. The force will be supplied by a fleet of 15 ships, most of them stationed near areas of crisis, and an undetermined number of new cargo planes probably based in the U.S. Total cost: about $10 billion. But the ships and planes exist only on drawing boards. The force is not expected to be in operation for at least three...