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Traveling at perhaps 20km a second, the giant mass of iron and nickel crosses western Australia in under a minute and dives into the atmosphere, its path traced by the hiss and crackle of electrophonic noise, echoed by thunderous sonic booms as the air slows it through the sound barrier. Around it an envelope of ionized gas produces an incandescent fireball, brilliant as the sun, hot enough to vaporize the metal until what's left - as massive as a battleship and some 50m across - drives itself at more than 20,000 km an hour into the desert floor...
...book about the crater. Her late father's find was extraordinarily rare. Although an estimated 3,000 metric tons of meteoric dust falls to Earth each year, only about 100 meteorites of any substance make it through the atmosphere. Typically, only five of these will be made of iron and therefore "less prone to break up," says Alex Bevan, Curator of Mineralogy and Meteoritics at the Western Australian Museum. More than half shoot harmlessly into the sea; individuals large enough to gouge a Wolfe Creek arrive - fortunately for us - about once every 50,000 years. The Earth's surface...
...Angeles. Gold, center, was an early popularizer of bodybuilding in the U.S. and mentor to a broke Austrian bodybuilder named Arnold Schwarzenegger, whom he allowed to work out for free and nicknamed "Balloon Belly." His Venice Beach gym was the setting for the documentary Pumping Iron...
...much to the aspirations of Braff the director. His eye for plaintive, sublime imagery is as impressive as his ear for awkward, funny situations, and smartly, the 27-year-old has used his big shot at Hollywood auteur-dom as an excuse not just to include great music (Iron and Wine, The Shins, Simon and Garfunkel), but to sew it tightly into the film. Indeed, his movie feels like a mix tape writ large, addressed to the thousands of kids like him who want to follow their heart, if they only knew where it was. Apparently, surprisingly, he left...
...Inevitably, the combination of players and coaches migrating has tended to iron out national idioms, to some extent, and produce a version of the game whose tactics share a far great number of common characteristics. To be sure, the victory of rank outsiders Greece will long be remembered as one of soccer's great Cinderella story. But the way they won through - a superbly organized defense soaking up hours of pressure from more skillful and attacking opponents, and then winning by a single goal scored a quick headed goal on the counterattack or from a free kick or corner, left...