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...Afghanistan, where outsiders are no longer able to do much watching, the difference shows. Whatever story is there can't be covered properly. News must be gathered from diplomats, whose own movements are limited, or distilled from travelers, whose passionate descriptions often outrun their knowledge. The Associated Press hasn't been able to get anyone into Afghanistan since Edie Lederer, posing as a rug-buying tourist, traveled through the countryside last May. She came out with a colorful story and four rugs. In Iran, no American correspondent can get accredited to Khomeini's regime; to cover...
...gate No. 1 was Genuine Risk, the filly who broke a 65-year tradition to outrun the colts in the Kentucky Derby this year. In gate No. 2 was Codex, the California colt who beat Genuine Risk in the Preakness despite a controversial ride by his jockey that resulted in a foul claim and an almost unheard-of appeal for state authorities to overturn the results of a Triple Crown classic. Given the circumstances, Cassidy might have bypassed the traditional "And they're off!" in favor of a salutation more suitable to the ill will of a horse race...
However, anyone who has watched the women play will tell you that they don't simply outclass their opposition--they outrun, outskill, outshout, outshoot, and outscore them...
While Jimmy Carter tried to outrun the attack-rabbit story, Daughter Amy bade goodbye to her maverick mongrel Grits. Born on Election Day 1976, Grits was a gift to the First Daughter from Verona Meeder, her fifth-grade teacher. The dog was returned, presidential aides insisted, because its mother had died, leaving Mrs. Meeder canineless. As usual, however, there were leaks in high places. One was that Amy's pet was sent back because, after 2½ years, it still was not White House broken. · It may be the only gym that contributes profits to California...
...first time that ambition had outrun technology. In the Antarctic summer of 1911-12, ten men reached the South Pole, and five returned. They used only the most primitive of tools and energy sources-snowshoes, dog sleds, their own muscles. Once the pole had been attained, it was abandoned for nearly half a century. And then, in the 1957-58 International Geophysical Year, men came back with all the resources of modern technology. Aircraft and snow cats carried the new explorers swiftly and safely over the frozen hell where Robert Falcon Scott perished with his companions. For 20 years...