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After Brannon (15'9") and senior Trevor Barcelo (12'9.5") took first and third respectively in the pole vault, sophomore distance runner Ian Carswell turned in an inspirational performance in the mile, out-kicking a Northeastern runner at the end of the race by two-tenths of a second...
...real gathering place. The food was terrific. You could smell someone who came out of Elsie's from a mile away," the dean said. "My favorite was the roast beef special. It had a spectacular dressing...
...gotta go, go with a bang. That's what Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 did last July. Nearly two dozen mountain-size chunks of this fragmented interplanetary wanderer slammed into Jupiter, creating 2,000-mile-high fireballs and sooty smudges on the planet's cloud tops that were visible from backyard telescopes. Scientists learned much about Jupiter's atmosphere, about comets, and even about how a similar impact on earth might have killed off the dinosaurs. For most onlookers, though, it was just a fantastic show...
...fast as possible," said Cecilda, fingering a scar on his left leg where he cut himself on the barbed wire. "Now we're stuck here, and all we can do is think about our families that we left behind." Two men have drowned during the one-mile swim. The picturesque inlet where their bodies were found is known as Dead Man's Cove. Another man trying to walk across the border was killed when he stepped on a land mine. Cecilda was returned to a small camp called November, which the Americans have actually moved closer to the Cuban border...
...scarcely taller than her mother" at birth, and -- though her father gave her a shiny new ax to play with in her cradle -- "was a full two years old before she built her first log cabin." Her epic mud wrestle with the giant bear Thundering Tarnation has the rowdy, mile-wide quality of the Paul Bunyan tales: the combatants fall asleep after days of pummeling each other, and "Tarnation snored louder than a rockslide, while Angel snored like a locomotive in a thunderstorm. Their snoring rumbled through the earth, tumbling boulders and shaking trees loose. By morning, they had snored...