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...perhaps most telling was his showing in the mile run, where he did not even place in the top six. Although Shearer was tripped up early on in his preliminary heat, he still managed to catch up form behind to finish second...
...benefits of EPA strictures are often worth the cost. Key West, Florida, a tourists' lair with a permanent population of around 25,000, is a case in point. As late as 1987, the village pumped its raw sewage through leaking pipes less than a mile out to sea, where it was laying waste to the nearby reefs and fishing grounds. Outside town, a waste dump had grown into what locals called "Mount Trashmore...
...Caribbean island of Barbados after swimming across the Atlantic from the Cape Verde Islands. Delage swam for 10 hours a day, then crawled aboard an accompanying raft to rest. Afflicted by seasickness and often spurred on by the presence of hungry sharks, he completed his 2,400-mile journey in less than two months...
Goetze was her usual phenomenal self, blowing away the field in both the mile (5:03.93) and then the 800 (2:13.37) meter, an impressive and difficult accomplishment in the same meet. Along with senior Jen Kearney (2:16.28), Goetze relegated last year's HEPS 800 meter winner, Tonia Baker (2:17.30), to third place...
...surf, he climbed out again over sharp rocks that sliced his knees, hands and feet. Naked and bleeding, he was taken by a passerby to an area hospital. But, one tragedy compounding another, Debbie had been swept out to sea. On Friday police found her body about a mile up the coast. She leaves behind a husband and an 18-month...