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With its slip-sliding Jamaicans and Monaco's Prince Albert occasionally in a can, bobsleigh, as Olympianados call it, has long seemed a silly sport. There's always some wacky thing going on, like the track melting in Calgary or summer-sports stars like hurdler Edwin Moses trying to hitch a ride to a medal. This year was going to be different. This year, since women would be competing for the first time and since some of the best women sliders were from the U.S., Americans would be engaged by a fair, clean and friendly competition. Congenial. Sweet...
...celebration of light, beauty and space. Author J.K. Rowling's wizards came to life on the screen and people flocked to theaters for a little levitation. A 15-year-old boy from Nepal climbed the world's highest mountain; a 60-year-old millionaire paid $20 million to hitch a ride into space. Even in a terrible year, clocks continue to tick, the pages of the calendar still turn. Here are some of the memories of 2001 that shouldn't be forgotten...
...weight for someone who weighs 6 lbs. and change. Cultural and political observers hoped the royal pair's first child, still unnamed, would help bring the nation out of a funk born of a years-long economic bust. Japanese did celebrate in the streets, but there was a hitch. Under current rules, only a male can be Emperor, and since Naruhito's brother has two daughters, there remains no legal heir to succeed Naruhito on the Chrysanthemum Throne. (Remember, folks, Japan's our ally, so this little gender-role eccentricity falls under "acceptable cultural differences.") There have, however, been eight...
...other words, watching JAG was like signing up for a permanent hitch in the Square Force. But now, suddenly, American flags are stitched into the logos of news broadcasts and the nation is abuzz about, of all things, the military justice system. As creator and executive producer Don Bellisario likes to say, "JAG didn't find its patriotism on Sept. 11." But America's renewed national pride has evidently found JAG. Ratings for the show, once known for appealing mainly to older viewers steeped in old-timey values, are up 39% this fall among 18-to-49-year-olds...
...fielda of science. But you had better hurry, as we humans feel it is our sacred duty to explore and conquer all that is unknown in what might be considered a scientific Manifest Destiny. So if you want to get yourself your own little homestead, well you had better hitch up the wagon before The West becomes domesticated, and riddled with post offices...