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Similar to the Babe himself, Whitton’s numbers offensively leapt through the roof once relieved of the burden of excelling in two dimensions of the game...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Whitton on Top of the World, Harvard Records | 4/11/2003 | See Source »

...called Leslie, who was on the terrace of the hotel's 24th-floor gym. He said he'd meet her outside; he'd be right down. It was a final tease?a sick joke, really?for when Chan came out she found his body on the pavement. He had leapt to his death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Fall from a Great Height | 4/7/2003 | See Source »

...SARS fatality in Singapore, while two new cases appeared outside Vietnam's capital?dashing epidemiologists' hopes that Hanoi's strict quarantine efforts had contained the disease. In Malaysia, where its government had maintained for weeks that there were no SARS victims in the country, the number of suspected cases leapt from zero to 59 in just a few days. Critics quickly assailed Kuala Lumpur for the same obfuscatory practices used in China that may have contributed to the disease's silent spread. The Malaysian government flatly denied a cover-up, and top health officials held daily briefings for reporters, leading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doing Battle with the Bug | 4/7/2003 | See Source »

...decided to make this journey? Stewart: I'd ridden once before on a ranch trip in Wyoming. As it went on, I became a lot more accomplished and wanted more-and-more-eager horses. I actually rode up at each new camp in a grand style?galloped up and leapt off my horse?to let them know that I could handle their horses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Wanderer | 1/20/2003 | See Source »

...cats around the southern Indian village of Bori Budruk cried out. To look a leopard in the eye is to be rendered mute with primitive, mind-numbing terror. Vilas Dattu Jadhav says his daughter's killer crept across a stubble field to the front of his one-room shack, leapt through the door, lifted Deepali off the floor by her neck and bounded into the sugarcane fields before he noticed. He was standing five meters away. The four-year-old never made a sound. Vilas says the silence is contagious. "My six-year-old, Rahul, he never leaves the house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Silent Scream | 11/25/2002 | See Source »

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