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Harvard track star Cliff Sheehan earned All-American honors over the weekend with a second-place finish in the mile at the NCAA national track and field championships at Oklahoma City...
...landscape she made most completely her own, through more than 50 years of scrutiny and reverie, was that of New Mexico. She went there for the first time in 1929, and it never let her go. The windy space, the towering cloud architecture, the wrinkled hills "like a mile of elephants," as she once put it, and the reduction of all organic form to sweeping, compressed epitomes lend her paintings something of the grandeur of 19th century panoramic landscapes...
...busiest new cocaine alley is the 2,100-mile Mexican border. "It's a sieve, and we don't have enough fingers to plug all the holes," says Drexel Watson, a senior special agent for the Customs Service. "More drugs than ever are coming in. It's pretty devastating." Mexico has become a conduit for as much as a third of the South American cocaine entering the U.S. Mexico is also grabbing larger shares of the U.S. markets for heroin and marijuana. Partly because of Mexico's economic woes, struggling farmers have boosted their crops of opium poppies and marijuana...
...wield high-tech instruments, including fiber-optic devices for examining the interiors of gas tanks and ultrasonic range finders to determine whether hollow panels really are empty. Last week the San Diego district began a policy of tougher inspections that had cars backed up for more than a mile...
...Emperor Nero entered his Golden House for the first time. He inspected the statue of himself, 120 feet high. He saw the enclosed lake surrounded by buildings that were designed to represent the cities of the empire. He admired the pillared arcade that stretched for a mile, the dining rooms paved with porphyry, the ceilings of gold and fretted ivory inlaid with jewels. "At last," he said, "I am beginning to live like a human being...