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Even at Harvard, where such excellence on an international level can seem normal at times, Wylie skated an extremely unlikely path. While Harvard does enable hockey players and swimmers to cultivate Olympic-level talent through the channels of varsity competition, it affords no such opportunity to figure skaters...
Usually, busy diplomats travel from Amman to Jerusalem by air, but James Baker took the less traveled path last week and made the trip by road. With his two-hour drive, the Secretary of State wanted to underscore just how close the two adversaries are. But his stroll over the Allenby Bridge spanning the River Jordan, which marks the border, made the equally telling point that both sides are loath to come together. The two Jordanian officers who accompanied the Secretary midway across the bridge and the waiting Israeli escort spoke not a word to one another...
...this difference in travel time that sets up Gott's time machine. Imagine a rocket ship moving at 99.9999% of light speed and taking the shorter of the two paths. In principle it could reach the far side of a string at exactly the same moment as a light ray traveling the longer path. In essence the ship would be moving faster than light, and under the peculiar logic of special relativity, it would thus go backward in time. For complex reasons, the ship has to make a complete loop around the string, and thus a single string will...
...think that he's open," she continued. "If something strikes him, he's very direct--he gets to it. He doesn't follow the same path every...
...goal "is not to be like them." In a city where tabloids run front-page headlines like TEDDY'S SEXY ROMP! the Gray Lady will surely never be ranked as the gamiest daily in town. Meanwhile the new breeze blowing through the Times is raising some storms along its path...