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...fair, skiing is more than the endurance of intense physical pain; it is humiliating and tortuous mentally as well. Start with the names of the slopes. "Suicide Stretch," "The Outer Limits" and "Kamikaze Run" are advanced slopes with names that make adrenaline boil...
...Since a big part of covering the White House involves waiting -- waiting in outer offices to talk with officials, waiting on runways for motorcades, waiting for Bush to catch a fish -- I'm well trained for this position," says Duffy...
Although supernovae are said to "explode," in reality they start with a collapse, Kirshner points out. The inside of the star collapses to make what is also called a "neutron star" or "black hole" and this heats and eventually blows off the star's outer shells, thus spreading newly created substances throughout the universe...
Squirrelly's Grouper, for example, takes place on Hatteras, on North Carolina's Outer Banks, and deals with a reclusive commercial fisherman who hauls in a record-breaking specimen, a Warsaw grouper the "size of an Oldsmobile." The narrator, who owns the local marina, relates all the subsequent excitement and then warns, "Now if you don't already know, this story winds up with a punch from so far out in left field there's just no way you can see it coming, but I can't apologize for that." Nor, given the artful conclusion, should he. Stolen Kiss moves...
...battery-acid diet and needs instructions on matters as diverse as earthling sexual practices and the historical significance of Jimmy Durante. Nobody's perfect. But Celeste is a willing learner, and Dr. Steve Mills (Dan Aykroyd), the widower, father and scientist on whose signal into outer space she beamed down, is an eager, bedazzled teacher...