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...total GDPs of Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi, Mozambique and Namibia combine to yield little more than 75 percent of the current endowment...
...works range in age from the approximately 26,000-year-old paintings in Namibia's Apollo 11 cave (discovered at the time of the Moon mission) to late 19th century Bushmen drawings. "Rock art represents an extraordinarily interesting and valuable heritage," says Neville Agnew, associate program director of the Los Angeles-based Getty Conservation Institute. "It's a page from the past." The art has "immense" value, says Campbell, not just because of its beauty but because "it comprises much of what we have left of both the creation of art and the development of early beliefs...
...stands in Mexico City when Bob Beamon long-jumped over 29 ft., and even when he was in the air, you just knew it was something special. Tonight, same thing." When Johnson crossed the finish line, a full 5 m ahead of silver medalist Frankie Fredericks of Namibia, the timer read 19.32 sec. People who knew the significance of the number blinked in disbelief. Johnson had broken his own world record of 19.66 by more than a third of a second, skipping right over the .50s and .40s. Oh, yes--he had also just become the first man in Olympic...
...Canada won the 100 m in a world-record time of 9.84 sec., although it took three false starts and a petulant protest by Great Britain's Linford Christie, who was disqualified for two of them, before the gun sounded for good. Bailey ran down Frankie Fredericks of Namibia and Ato Boldon of Trinidad to become the world's fastest human--ever. He also helped erase the Seoul stigma of Ben Johnson, who like Bailey was a Jamaican running for Canada. "I'm not trying to do what Ben did, or undo what Ben did in Seoul," he said...
...still have tremendous wattage on the evening of July 27. Among the contestants will be Barcelona's prickly champ, Linford Christie of Britain; Ato Boldon of Trinidad by way of UCLA; Canada's two heirs to Ben Johnson, world champion Donovan Bailey and Bruny Surin; and Frankie Fredericks of Namibia and Brigham Young University. Fredericks, who is coached by Hirschi and is employed on the business side of a Namibian uranium mine, has been positively radioactive of late, running the second- and third-fastest 100s in history and then ending Michael Johnson's 21-race winning streak...