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...because they are the kids in class who never let anyone see them study but show everyone their straight A's. They are huge women (Venus, 21, at 6 ft. 1 in.; Serena, 19, an even more muscled 5 ft. 10 in.) who learned the game at home in inner-city Compton, Calif., under an amateur coach, their father--not at the boot camp of coach Nick Bolletieri, where most promising kids are sent. They dominate through their athleticism. Venus, who can serve a ball at 127 m.p.h., is actually less powerful than her sister. But she's faster, comes...
...DRILLING HOLES Divers using high-pressure hoses are cutting 26 holes through the outer and inner hulls of the sub and attaching cones and wires to guide the cables. The holes are 27.5 in. wide...
...minutes for the June 26-27 Fed meeting came in Thursday, and to the extent they revealed the inner workings of a Fed meeting (they don?t; that?s why the FOMC releases minutes on a one-meeting lag and the transcripts on a five year lag) they basically bear out what everybody figured about that slightly mysterious gathering. So why did the Fed put an end to its 50-points-a-meeting regime of the spring with a 25-basis-point cut - and release a statement that gave no indication why? Because, the minutes say, the members feared sowing...
...great blooming, buzzing confusion." That's how William James, writing more than a century ago, described the inner world of infants. Babies, unaware of the objects and people outside their bodies, see a kaleidoscope of shimmering pixels, he supposed. The famous Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget agreed: not until they are two years old do children fully appreciate that the world contains things that behave in predictable ways...
...months into the journey, I entered the Ordos Desert in Inner Mongolia, hoping to cut across the northern tip to the banks of the Yellow River. From the map, it seemed a few hours' trek away, but three days later, with no more food or water, I was still trudging through the dunes. At one point, I started running like a mad man and ripping off my clothes. When a plane passed overhead, I stared up hopelessly and imagined all the people sitting inside. To stay alive I drank my urine. Eventually I cupped a plastic bag over...