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Knobler's "Jeopardy!" experience began last May, when the linguistics concentrator was procrastinating by playing the game online. He noticed a link for applications for the 2000 college tournament. After typing in his name and e-mail address, Knobler promptly forgot about the contest, he said...
...only problem was, someone forgot to tell NASA. No sooner did the story break than the space agency issued a flurry of statements insisting that the show was not under consideration. There was something, however, in the nondenial tone of the denials coming out of NASA last week and the week before that raised eyebrows. Yes, Dreamtime was authorized to come up with "outside-the-box" ideas, the space agency admitted--just not this...
...both your feet are off the ground, you're running. That was something Australian race walker Jane Saville forgot as she neared the end of her 20-km race. In first place and only 200 m from a triumphal finish inside Stadium Australia, Saville was dramatically, almost cruelly--but correctly--disqualified from the race for running...
...Guston himself provided a fascinating metaphor for his mid-career transformation: "I felt like an explorer who almost got to the top of Mt. Everest and somehow stopped just short and remembered and thought, 'Well, perhaps, maybe I forgot some gear,' you know, 'I forgot some equipment.' I took some side paths that looked exciting, full of possibilities. What equipment did I lack? It was a stronger contact with the thickness of things." But abandoning the summit of Mt. Everest in search of new equipment proved a bold move indeed. Completely renouncing non-figurative art at a time when...
...Forgot all about the Fed meeting, what with it being earnings season on Wall Street and election season - make that debate season - everywhere else? That's just what Alan Greenspan had in mind...