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...movie, Dorothy is packed with golf ball-size radio transmitters that are supposed to fly up into the vortex and relay data to ground-based computers. The idea is not all that farfetched, according to real-life storm chasers (some of whom acted as scientific consultants on the film). They speculate, though, that most of the flying transmitters would be blown away from the vortex or destroyed by debris. Over the years, researchers have proposed all sorts of zany schemes for getting instruments into a tornado's heart, including blasting at the twister with instrumented rockets and probing it with...
...emotions ricocheting between anger, bewilderment and remorse as they pleaded for understanding. Pressed by city attorney Robert Ihrie to explain why they had supported the release of their son Alex, 16, from juvenile custody last summer, even though he had committed several burglaries and attacked his father with a golf club, Susan snapped, "I didn't want him in a youth home with murderers and rapists." Had she sought counseling for Alex? "I couldn't force him to go," Susan said. "I tried to talk him into going, and he refused." Did she feel responsibility for Alex's crimes...
...went for the next three days of cascading inflation. Many of those who showed up to bid on the desiderata of celebrity were themselves celebrities. Film star Arnold Schwarzenegger, spouse of J.F.K.'s niece Maria Shriver, muscled up $772,500 for J.F.K.'s MacGregor Woods golf clubs, $134,500 for a Norman Rockwell painting of the President and $189,500 for a leather desk set. From a different latitude, singer Jimmy Buffett telephoned in a winning bid of $43,700 for a Jamie Wyeth lithograph of the President in a sailboat...
Tied for first place after the first round, Radtke played an aggressive style of golf over the final 18 holes. Playing without a leader board to dictate strategy (there are no leader boards in college golf), the co-captain's attacking style cost him on the 17th hole. Trying to make birdie, Radtke hit his drive into the water and took a penalty, a shot which probably cost him the tournament...
...gone out the entire round of golf and had played really aggressive golf," Radtke said. "I was stepping up there trying to make birdie. In retrospect, maybe I would have made a different play...