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...prize money (at the time it was ?100) for its Open. But thereafter the Machrie became the course that time forgot. Now the Machrie is waking from its century of slumber: plans are afoot to extend the links and develop the Machrie Hotel, which serves as clubhouse and 19th hole. "If it goes well," says manager Ian Brown, "future visitors will be able to experience a course very similar to the one that Vardon and Co played...
They quickly realize this is a "dry hole": the house is empty. The raid has awakened the neighbors, though, which allows Bravo Company leader Captain Michael Rainey to ask some questions. The house had indeed been occupied by foreigners, says an old man, but they left a few weeks ago. They had claimed to be students, but Rainey uncovers hand-drawn maps of the area that hint at a more sinister purpose...
...NASA scientists are impressed by these plans. Many believe there would be plenty of money to fly top-shelf ships if the space agency would drop its preoccupation with manned space travel. The International Space Station has been a scientific black hole, swallowing nearly $100 billion and delivering little of real value. President Bush's manned moon-Mars initiative will cost at least $170 billion--and that's from an agency that has never met a cost estimate it couldn't overrun. Forget the fixation with getting bodies in orbit or boots in the soil, critics say, and you could...
...prize money (at the time it was ?100) for its Open. But thereafter the Machrie became the course that time forgot. Now the Machrie is waking from its century of slumber: plans are afoot to extend the links and develop the Machrie Hotel, which serves as clubhouse and 19th hole. "If it goes well," says manager Ian Brown, "future visitors will be able to experience a course very similar to the one that Vardon and Co. played." But this daunting course will remain both a beauty and a beast: thanks to the extreme undulations of these links, even the lowest...
Buehrens predicted that increasing payoff from the Medical School’s endowment—which was set at unusually low rates of 4 percent this year and 2 percent last year—would help the school get out of its hole...