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Environmentalists also worry about how the electricity would get from the plant to Honolulu consumers, some 320 km (200 miles) away on the island of Oahu. Part of the plan calls for an undersea cable 222 km (138 miles) long, traversing the 1,920-meter-deep (6,300 ft.) Alenuihaha Channel. That would be the longest and deepest undersea electrical transmission line in the world. No one knows whether such a cable could operate reliably, nor whether its construction might harm the Cape Kinau nature reserve on Maui...
...evident in swimming, as the women's team captured only one of 13 individual gold medals (vs. eight of 13 at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul) and lost a major medley relay to an American squad for the first time since 1978. Said Kathleen Nord, who won the 200-meter butterfly in Seoul but was shut out in Seattle: "People have turned against us. We cannot concentrate on competition when the shape of our lives is so uncertain. When we become part of the free world, we will have to find corporate sponsors." Daniela Hunger, another East German gold medalist...
Swimming nonetheless provided a new world record, as Mike Barrowman of the U.S. improved his own mark in the 200-meter breaststroke, and a great comeback story, as 1988 U.S. Olympian Matt Biondi emerged from semiretirement to win five medals, four gold. That was more excitement than track achieved despite having such U.S. stars as Carl Lewis, Roger Kingdom, Jackie Joyner-Kersee and Evelyn Ashford, who, at 33, finished just out of the medals in the 100-meter dash in the twilight of her exceptional career...
...throngs of the faithful, clad in traditional terry-cloth robes, crossed a pedestrian bridge in Mina, a railing gave way under the pressure. Seven worshipers plunged 8 meters, smashing into even greater waves of people at the mouth of a 550-meter-long tunnel dug through a mountain to ease the pietists' journey. The rain of bodies brought foot traffic to a halt, but at the tunnel's opposite end other hajjis, unaware of the human blockade, continued to shove forward. Soon the passageway was jammed with some 50,000 people, many times more than its capacity. Next, according...
Rainey sparked the Crimson to its first-ever Heptagonals championships this year during both the indoor and outdoor seasons. In Ithaca, N.Y., Rainey won the 55-meter, the 400-meter and the 800-meter races to help catapult Harvard to a first place finish at the indoor Heps. And Rainey ran an astounding total of six events at the spring Heps in Philadelhia, winning three of them...