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...athletes develop their own mix of style and technique. But Nadal's peculiarity is quantifiable. San Francisco???based tennis researcher John Yandell has used video-capture technology to record the topspin of Nadal's forehand. He found that Nadal's shot rotates at an average of 3,200 times a minute. Andre Agassi, one of the game's great shotmakers, generated 1,900 rotations per minute in his prime, and current world No. 2 Roger Federer, whose forehand is considered among the game's best, generates 2,700. As U.S. Davis Cup captain Patrick McEnroe has said of Nadal...
Gate receipts are not the only reward of touring. According to San Francisco???based Winterland Productions, which handles merchandising for Springsteen, fans at a U.S. concert spend an average of $5 to $6 on souvenirs. Among the items: $15 T shirts, $5 posters and $2 buttons. Total merchandising sales for the last tour were at least $25 million, of which Springsteen is thought to have received more than $8 million...
...SAN FRANCISCO??Last year's 4,000 gay marriages were voided by the state supreme court, but another judge has ruled a ban on same-sex unions illegal...
...earth's land surface, the Soviet Union stretches from a cluster of virtual colonies in Eastern Europe to the Bering Strait off the top of Alaska, across two continents and eleven time zones; more than 3,000 miles? roughly the distance from New York to San Francisco???separate the ice fields of the Arctic Ocean from the sun-parched Kara Kum Desert. The 262.4 million citizens of the U.S.S.R. belong to more than 100 ethnic groups and claim descent from Varangians, Turks, Mongols and countless Eurasian tribes. Their government preaches to them, in Russian, about the supreme wisdom...
Twain is neither. He is impatient to visit the region where he lived and labored a century ago. The travelers drive north along the wild California coast at Big Sur and into San Francisco???charmingly provincial still, studiously cosmopolitan. Even Twain is impressed with that great sculpture in steel, the Golden Gate Bridge. People, he is told, come from miles around just to jump from it, but these visitors prefer to enjoy the scene from the hills immediately northwest of the span...