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...Canseco -- each homered at least once in the playoff series against Toronto. Canseco's was a tape-measure job estimated by an IBM computer at 480 ft. Nobody seemed more impressed than Jose himself telling callers on his personal hot line, (900) 234-JOSE, "I mean, this was one mammoth home run, - and you really enjoy hitting those types. I mean, if you gotta hit it, you might as well hit it far, right...
...extract gold from such low-grade deposits, miners must crush tons and tons of rock, which is piled into mammoth heaps and irrigated with cyanide. The cyanide percolates through the heap, extracting the gold. In the early days of the invisible-gold rush, a ton of ore might contain a few tenths of an ounce of gold. Today that minuscule amount would be considered high grade. Says Livermore: "They're mining deposits that we would have considered waste rock back in 1961." Nevada mines are now digging up a ton of rock to get back as little...
...FRANCISCO--Workers zeroed in on remaining bodies buried under tons of freeway concrete yesterday and scientists pinpointed the epicenter of the mammoth earthquake beneath a mountain creek while President Bush toured ravaged areas to offer sympathy...
Harvard had a match point at 14-12, but Williams quickly ran off three straight points for a set point of its own. Harvard regained its serve, but a mammoth block by McConnell gave Williams one more chance to serve out the set. That was all the visitors needed to close out the frame, 16-14. The momentum had switched...
...Harvard's development officers have changed their tune and are pushing for a mammoth University-wide effort that would be the first time all of Harvard's nine faculties have joined together in raising funds...