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...cortege of armored vehicles parks in the undergrowth along the roadside. Nine hours will pass before Team Tiger begins the last leg of its 180-mile journey to Baidoa. Sotak waves to Marines passing by on the bed of a truck. "Those are the real grunts," he says. "When it rains, it's awful, and they can't take stuff like this with them." Sotak opens a St. Louis Cardinals bag holding his only sources of entertainment: a box with a chess set and a small electronic football simulation game...
Finally a bit of good news: some astronomers have revised calculations on Swift-Tuttle, and predict that the big comet will breeze by us at a comfortable 15 million-mile distance. Of course, there is always the possibility that some other uncharted space rock may come crashing through the atmosphere. Best keep...
...October 1990, party leader L.K. Advani escalated his campaign: he led a 6,200-mile procession across India in support of the movement to build the Rama temple. Lethal riots followed, but the extremist spasm had its desired effect. In 1991 the Bharatiya Janata Party won four state governments and 119 seats in the lower house, which made it the official opposition to Rao's ruling Congress Party...
Kearney, whose best event is the mile, couldhave gone to "track schools" like Villanova orGeorgetown on athletic scholarship, where most ofher life would have revolved around athletics. Butshe chose Harvard, she says, for the academics andbecause she disliked the "athletic pressure" atother schools...
...ground is solid and compact and water flows down through it at a rate of less than 30 m (100 ft.) a year. But about 20% of the U.S.'s fresh water flows through the myriad cavities and pores of limestone karst, often traveling 1 km (0.6 mile) overnight, taking unpredictable turns and sometimes bubbling up to the surface through a spring. Containment of a toxic spill in such terrain is virtually impossible. Even ordinary garbage that is dumped in a sinkhole can contaminate groundwater miles away...