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...South is pretty much locked up for Bush, but Gore might get Tennessee," Nyhan said. "The Democrats get slaughtered in the mountain states, and Bush has no chance in California and New York...

Author: By David M. Debartolo and Imtiyaz H. Delawala, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Globe Columnist Talks Politics, Press | 7/14/2000 | See Source »

...Otis Redding 3. Dazed and Confused - Led Zeppelin 4. Heard It Through the Grapevine - Marvin Gaye 5. Under the Boardwalk 6. To Love Somebody - Janis Joplin 7. You've Lost that Loving Feeling - Righteous Brothers 8. Tracks of My Tears - Smokey Robinson & Miracles 9. River Deep, Mountain High - Animals 10. House of the Rising Sun - Animals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All-Time Top Ten: The Readers Give Us an Earful | 7/13/2000 | See Source »

...Hawaii and Kwajalein, which will begin searching the northeastern skies for the intruder. In a fully deployed system, early-warning radars in Alaska, California, Britain, Greenland and Massachusetts would get the alarm. Updates on the target's path will pour into the U.S. Space Command's outpost at Cheyenne Mountain, Colo. Computers there will assemble a "weapons task plan" based on the incoming weapon's trajectory and any decoys trying to fool the U.S. interceptor. Within minutes, the first draft of this electronic map will be zapped nearly 6,000 miles to Kwajalein and into the interceptor's electronic brain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Missile Impossible? | 7/10/2000 | See Source »

...eight person party, only four were stalwart enough to sign up (and pay the $100 it cost). At around 7:30 p.m. we set out in the back of a rickety pickup truck for a 45-minute drive to the top of a 6,500-foot mountain on a dirt road exactly the width of the truck's wheel-base. As the non-English speaking driver shifted into lower and lower gear in an attempt to climb the mountain and I looked over the side of the truck and out over the cliff, I felt like I was going...

Author: By Allison A. Melia, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Courage to Fly | 7/7/2000 | See Source »

...realized was the most expert 3-point turn ever performed. At the time, however, I lacked such clarity of mind and viewed this feat as a nearly successful attempt to stop my otherwise healthy teenage heart. When we finally disembarked, I was more than willing to parachute down the mountain, imagining it would be a much more civilized ride. But Sugar was quick to squelch that pleasant thought when he informed us that conditions at the top were not good, that there was not enough wind and what little wind there was was blowing in the wrong direction. I pretended...

Author: By Allison A. Melia, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Courage to Fly | 7/7/2000 | See Source »

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