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...straight games, 121 short of the record set by Lou Gehrig. A 12-time All-Star and two-time MVP, Ripken holds the records for most homers by a shortstop (302) and most consecutive games without an error (95). He is both the Princeton 104-the hardiest-and the Derby -- the most splendid -- of his kind. So what did he think of the new sod? "It's great," he said. "Softer under your feet, nicer to look at, the way a field should be. Smells like baseball...
...French museums is the retrospective of Nicolas Poussin at the Grand Palais in Paris, marking the 400th anniversary of the painter's birth. The visitor is warned: this is not an easy show, and given the queues outside and the crowds within, it taxes the concentration of even the hardiest gallerygoer. It contains 245 paintings and preparatory drawings -- a fearsome demonstration of the borrowing power of Pierre Rosenberg, the show's chief organizer, who runs the Louvre's department of paintings. One may even wonder whether it is addressed to a general public at all. But for specialists...
...actually allowed to go to Boston. However, the weather in Boston was so bad that five minutes before landing, the plane was re-routed to Montreal. Unfortunately, Huestis did not have proper identification. Despite his ordeal and the fact that the heavy snow was keeping away all but the hardiest patrons, the Crimson found Huestis in surprisingly good humor as he, to use his word, "gabbed" about various and sundry matters...
...dark and forbidding depths of the Gulf of Mexico, once frequented by only the hardiest of sea creatures, are now alive with human activity. Miniature submarines and robot-like vehicles prowl the ocean bottom while divers wend their way around incredible underwater structures -- taller than Manhattan skyscrapers but almost totally beneath the surface of the waves. This is the new geological frontier, and a daring breed of modern-day explorers is using technology worthy of Jules Verne and Jacques Cousteau to find fresh supplies of oil and natural...
...spite of the gold rush, the awakening region has pitfalls to investment that can deter all but the hardiest risk takers. Since East European currencies cannot be readily converted into dollars or other hard cash, Westerners must often take their profits in bartered goods, such as clothing or foodstuffs, which can be sold in other Western countries. At the same time, the area remains plagued by grasping bureaucrats, archaic trade rules and primitive roads, phone systems and factories. Says Jan Vanous, research director of Plan-Econ, a Washington-based consulting group that studies Eastern Europe: "Investing there is really...