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Junior Helena Ronner corralled two jumping events, taking the full 10 points in both the long jump and the high jump. Ronner’s long jump of 6.09 meters was a personal best and half a meter more than her nearest competitor. She also recorded an impressive 12.54 in the triple jump...
...always head first to the National Park Service website at www.nps.gov Just select a state, and the site lists all the national parks and recreation areas in the region. Printable travel guides tell you the peak season, what each park is like, how much campsites cost and where the nearest hotels are. Cool extras include live webcam views and a weather map of each park as well as a "for kids" section that details special activities for them. You can even book a campsite directly on the NPS site...
...crossed paths with a dense dwarf galaxy, resulting in a long tail of stars and galactic debris spun off by tidal forces. NASA knew Hubble should be able to show individual stars inside the galaxy, quite a feat at such a distance, about 200 times that of the nearest galaxy to our own Milky Way. It was a conservative choice, though. Visually interesting, scientifically significant, but hardly ground-breaking...
...million on the campaign, is so worried about an embarrassingly low turnout that it has reduced the voting age from 21 to 18 and set up 87,000 polling stations, including mobile booths at bazaars, bus stops, airports, offices, even prisons. At a rally in Peshawar last week, the nearest Musharraf supporters?including his own government officials?were kept 50 m away from the elevated stage, which was surrounded by commandos brandishing automatic rifles. Riot police were poised to charge, but the crowd was docile. Most had been carted in by local officials who had lured them with promises...
...channel onscreen. Having made his first million dollars on computer networks in the '80s and his first billion on the Internet in the '90s, Cuban is now betting on high-definition television, which uses digital technology to produce a picture four times as sharp as that of its nearest competitor. Last September, eager to broadcast Mavericks games in the high-definition format and frustrated by the industry's slow conversion to digital, Cuban launched HDNet --the first national TV network to offer all its programming in high def. On the air 16 hours a day via DirecTV satellite, HDNet offers...