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...look inside a twister on June 21, 1992, when I was fishing at Skagway Reservoir, east of Cripple Creek, Colorado. Around noon, I saw dark skies building to the west, and people smarter than I started leaving. Shortly after 2, a wild cloud formation appeared about half a mile to the west. Great white fingers developed from the left and right and flowed quickly toward a black, horizontally rolling cloud, which lifted to reveal a huge, whirling black vortex coming straight at me. I threw myself to the ground but couldn't help watching. The outside of the tornado...
When he was 14, Ben-Shachar's family moved back to Israel. Luckily, Israel's only commercial squash court was a five-minute walk from his house in Ramat Gan, a suburb of Tel Aviv. Here, Ben-Shachar's training consisted of a ten-mile run before school and about three hours of on-court afternoon practice. "My life was basically squash," he says. When given the option of graduating from high school early, Ben-Shachar accepted it. Graduating at 16 meant that he had two years to devote to squash before fulfilling his obligatory service in the Israeli army...
...Scholars being recruited] can sense insincerity a mile away," Gates says. "They can see he's committed to diversity and affirmative action and he's written a philosophical treatise to support...
After skimming several newspapers and checking his e-mail, Brokaw runs a 4-mile loop around Central Park with his yellow Labrador, Sage the Wonderdog...
Like many other seniors, Jay R. Girotto '96 took time off from graduation preparations last week. But while some seniors relaxed and vacationed last Thursday, Girotto ran with the Olympic Torch through one mile of his hometown of Cedar Rapids, Iowa...