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Stricker stayed close to Jacobs throughout the race. Jacobs held a three-second lead at the one-mile mark, but by one and 3/4 miles, Stricker had pulled even. Jacobs regained her lead with about a half-mile left in the race and held on for the victory...
...fees of up to $50,000 a mile, McIntyre has worked with wealthy landowners, anglers and developers to rehabilitate streams that became barren of trout, whose eggs die if covered with silt. His firm, Timberline Reclamations, based in Bozeman, Mont., has worked on 130 projects in 17 states and has attracted a small school of competitors with names like InterFluve and Stream Team...
Easily weathering the risky rendezvous, the half-ton craft transmitted a stream of valuable and sometimes surprising data about the 465,000-mile-long cometary tail to jubilant scientists tuned in at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. ICE's coup enabled American astronomers and space scientists to recover some of the patriotic and professional pride that was dashed in 1981 when Washington budget slashers vetoed a U.S. mission to Halley. "We wanted to make sure the U.S. didn't take a backseat to anyone," says NASA Spokesman James Elliott, "and we've done...
...thing if the police want to bag people for flouting the 55 mile-an-hour speed limit. But it's another if they want to be sissies...
When a green Buick passed by in the left lane doing a brisk 70 m.p.h., Woullard radioed up to his partner, who was waiting a quarter-mile up the road. The green Buick got nailed...