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Sudduth, a one-time Harvard star now a computer programmer at his alma mater, was timed in 19 minutes, 2.82 seconds on a winding, wind-whipped three-mile course on the Charles River...
When underground electric cables had to be laid in the Estonian capital of Tallinn this summer, a call went out for community help. Working mostly with shovels, some 5,000 volunteers dug a trench more than a mile long in one night. A Soviet television reporter asked a ruddy-faced young Estonian why he had come. "I want to help so that perestroika doesn't begin just up there," the volunteer explained with a wave of the arm, "but with me here, with this shovel...
...bank of fog loitering along the shore of the Gulf of Mexico, the waves emerge silently, advancing slowly and uniformly, like long thin lines of infantry, on the mouth of the Rio Grande. The river, exhausted after its tortuous odyssey along more than half of the 2,076-mile U.S.-Mexican border, offers little resistance to this serried assault. Its tired brown water backs up and bivouacs in a lagoon near a white lighthouse, and from there it slips, as stealthily as a camp deserter, into the Gulf...
...might seem strange that commercials would play such an important role on Homewood Avenue when a flesh-and-blood candidate, Dukakis, was appearing last Tuesday at the Jeep plant, less than a mile away. But in a TV era, Dukakis was glimpsed by fewer than a thousand chosen Toledo residents during his four hours in the city. Local television was his true target. While the early- evening news stressed Dukakis' planned message ("I care about working men and women"), the media glow quickly dissipated. By 11 p.m., Dukakis was upstaged on two of the three local newscasts by a murder...
...walk the quarter mile to Fenway Park, the giant CITGO gas sign, a timeless monument towering over the neighborhood, behind...