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...Feds boast more than 100 boats, but the fastest Coast Guard launch will travel only 28 m.p.h. The smugglers' sleek ocean racers, stripped of galleys and bunks for greater capacity, can do 50 m.p.h. fully loaded. "We are outmanned and outrun," says Coast Guard Commander John Ikens. "They have more money than...
...caught him." Officer Thomas Rudd has tried another Turner tactic: staying to the left of a fleeing car. Says he: "That's very intimidating, because the only thing the guy sees in his mirror is you about to pass him. This Dodge I was chasing could have outrun me, but he just gave...
...team must now see if it can hold water in Amherst next Sunday. The UMass harriers are the only ones to outrun the Harvard women this year, with that defeat coming in the women's first race of the season. Sullivan said yesterday she is not worried personally and has confidence the whole team will do better than before...
Some black stars, acknowledging their better performance, have developed amateur anthropological theories to explain it. To former Baltimore Colt Tight End John Mackey, superior black speed is simply a matter of the opportunities and exposures of childhood. "I was chasing rabbits as a kid," he recalls, "and I could outrun any white guy who was just jogging up and down the street. When they turn loose African athletes who have been chasing, say, cheetahs, they will rewrite the record books. It's not because they're black but what they've been doing." Other athletes see explanations...
...simply put them down on paper." But Hamprecht, who had no reason to distrust Gullis when he signed four of the original papers as a coauthor, is still puzzled. He feels Gullis-or any researcher-should know that "lies in science have short legs." That is, they cannot outrun the truth...