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...possibility that a black hole eats up the earth is too serious a threat to leave it as a matter of argument among crackpots.' MICHELANGELO MANGANO, theorist at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), in response to a U.S. lawsuit charging that CERN's new particle accelerator could endanger the planet...
...outcome is rarely predestined from the tee. What matters is the endgame - the approach shot and, most crucially, the chips and putts on its devilishly slick greens. This is not to say that Augusta doesn't provide a stern test of a golfer's resolve - a particularly demanding three-hole stretch is known as Amen Corner - it's just that this test is predicated on the principle that a person should have multiple opportunities for redemption...
Augusta National responded by lengthening almost all of its holes, but it did so with a focus on maintaining what the tournament committee calls the "shot value" of each hole. According to this strategy, holes on which golfers would have hit a 6-iron approach shot 40 years ago were lengthened so as to demand the same club for the approach today. Butch Harmon, Woods' former swing coach, says this fixation on "shot value" robbed the tee shots on several holes of their nuance, since golfers do not need to draw or fade the ball with their drivers when they...
...been really streaky all year, and that continued today,” Vance added. “We’re taking pitches when we shouldn’t and we’re swinging when we shouldn’t, so we wind up in a hole a lot of the time. It’s tough to produce runs that way.”The Crimson opens its home season at O’Donnell Field this weekend when it hosts Columbia and Penn for two key Ivy League doubleheaders. First pitch is scheduled for noon Saturday against...
...advertising buys through May, others are worried about a different horizon. One Clinton adviser wondered whether that what he called the "massive debt" was beginning to hang over not simply the campaign but Clinton's political future. How, this adviser asked, can the campaign climb out of "the debt hole if we don't win this whole thing?" Facing a Senate reelection campaign in 2012, he noted, Clinton's choice is daunting: "If you have a $10 million debt when this thing is over, she has to pay it off, and then, four years later, raise $30 to $40 million...