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Breaststroker Erika DeBenedetto double-dipped, capturing the 100 and 200-yard distances in 1:06.86 and 2:25.30, respectively. DeBenedetto's wins helped patch-up a lagging gap in the Crimson breaststroke line...
...divide, restore people's faith in a system that seemed cruddy and cracked. Then the count comes in and the cracks have deepened, no matter who wins and how. All through his life he had followed his father's footsteps--to Yale and flight school and the Oil Patch--but once he got there, the prizes had lost some of their honor and shine. The biggest prize of all was now within reach, back in the family, but even if he finally wins, he has to wonder what it's worth...
...take me to the Norwalk train station, listening to the tape I made of Jernigan's performance, I think of William Carlos Williams' line, and it occurs to me that in this quixotic adventure, I'm following those same currents of refined obsession, trying to claim a small, evanescent patch of the American fantasy. The maverick creative spirit that animated Henry Ford and Les Paul and Elvis is fully manifest in this impossible instrument, which is as crazy and American as it gets...
...group's campaign began quietly enough last spring. What set it off was a small triangular patch of land just past the Boston University bridge, where the geese nest for a couple of months each spring. Advocates for the birds call it the "goose meadow...
...with infrared radiation. That's not a huge problem, given that infrared is ideal for spotting new planets and for studying the early universe, the core of the Milky Way and the formation of stars. A bigger drawback is that adaptive optics can currently correct only for a small patch of atmosphere at the center of the telescope's field of view. But pockets of atmospheric turbulence are small enough that a slight change in viewing angle means a whole different pattern of distortions, which in turn requires a different pattern of corrections...