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...shots on several holes of their nuance, since golfers do not need to draw or fade the ball with their drivers when they are simply trying to hit it as far as possible down long, straight landing strips. "The days of hitting big, sweeping hooks off the tees are gone," he says. "I like the changes though, because it keeps the emphasis on the approach shot...
Most past Masters champions agree that Augusta provides almost the identical test of golfing skill that it did a generation ago. But the fact that it has gone to such lengths to ensure this consistency touches on a debate in the sport about whether professionals are now hitting the ball too far, and whether the game's governing bodies should place tighter restrictions on their equipment. Many other championship venues have undertaken expansions, and new courses with aspirations of hosting professional events are now built with much higher yardage totals. Longer golf courses require more resources for building and maintenance...
...before Clinton. Everything about his trip is unconventional, from his choice of towns that he is focusing on - Clinton strongholds like Scranton, Altoona, Wilkes-Barre, mostly working-class and white with lots of Catholics - to his quirky events. The Illinois Senator has scarfed down a hot dog and then gone bowling in Altoona, fed a baby cow in State College, sloshed back a beer and watched college basketball in Burnham, sampled the fares at a chocolate factory in Reading and, oh yeah, led some town halls and rallies as well. "I've been having a good time," Obama told...
...also money. According to Afghans, judges routinely accept bribes for favorable verdicts. Mohammad Mumtaz, an Afghan businessman visiting from the U.S., tells the story of a cousin's property dispute gone bad. His opponent paid a higher bribe to the court, and his cousin landed in jail for trying to get a squatter off his land. But it turned out OK, says Mumtaz. The cousin went through a broker who was a friend of the judge, paid $6500, and was released a month early. Such stories take on a more somber note when criminals and alleged members of the Taliban...
...supply, changing the ecosystem of the swamp, which is also bounded by a sewage treatment plant and a garbage dump. That there are still plenty of birds in Caroni is "an illusion," Agard warns. "The local colony is not doing so well," he says, and when their habitat is gone, the colony from the Venezuelan coast, which is rimmed by miles of unmolested mangroves, will bypass Trinidad, roosting elsewhere in the Caribbean. (Warden Ramnarine says he has not seen any signs of the negative affects of industrialization...