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...France, who idled across the finish line the day after his 31st birthday. At the start of the race, Jeantot was unknown to the racing world, though he had made four single-handed Atlantic crossings. Yet on the first of the race's four legs, the 7,100-miles from Newport to Cape Town, he piled up a one-week, 1,500-mile lead over his nearest competitor. That was the way it went, around the world; across the southern reaches of the Indian Ocean to Sydney, Australia; through the roaring forties and raging fifties of the southern ocean...
When there are no patients in the lab McMahon spends her time "scoring," that is translating the scribbling on the one third to one-half mile of paper generated in a night's monitoring into readable numbers. Each 20-second unit is assigned a number corresponding to the depth of the sleep during the period, and then marked on a grid. Those numbers can be led into a computer to aid the diagnosis of the disorder. The strips of paper are used so that both sides are written on, and they are microfilmed and thrown away. The microfilm is kept...
...Cornell University, an outlandish crew of more than 1850 costumed celebrants competed in the annual Phi Phi 500 a local fraternity's combination of party and charity walk-a-thon. The 1.1 mile course looped through the center of Ithaca starting at and returning to the fraternity's house...
Ever since the accident at Three Mile Island in 1979, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has been under intense public pressure to make sure that workable plans exist for evacuating the people who live near one of the 83 American nuclear power plants in case of another emergency. Last week the NRC showed by two tough decisions that it really takes its watchdog role seriously. In a unanimous ruling, the five-member agency voted to shut down by June 9 two troubled reactors that serve metropolitan New York City unless local authorities quickly agree on acceptable evacuation procedures...
Though the shiny day had turned forebodingly thunderous just before the race, Marfa bothered the field no more than the rainstorm did Sunny's Halo, who broke second from the tenth position and was never worse than second or first over the entire mile and a quarter. Preoccupied with the promise and problems of this one robust chestnut colt, Trainer David Cross had lost most of his clients this year. He started with 35 horses, ended with just three and did not really blame the defectors. Sunny's Halo's groom and best friend, John...