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American children are apt to know two things about the North Pole. First, Santa Claus lives there. Second, Admiral Robert E. Peary was the first person to get there, on April 6, 1909. Evidently these two lessons could be equally elaborate fictions. Geographers have concluded that Peary probably missed the Pole. Now Peary's handwritten notes of sextant readings, compass bearings and the sun's altitudes have surfaced. They indicate that the explorer himself knew he was no closer than 105 nautical miles away, according to Baltimore astronomer-historian Dennis Rawlins. The jottings, found in an envelope dated April...
...more pricey -- and deadly -- in F.W. Woolworth outlets in North Miami Beach and Hollywood, Fla. There $600 buys an Uzi semiautomatic machine gun, a version of the weapon developed for the Israeli army and now admired by terrorists and drug merchants. Says Woolworth spokesman Joseph F. Carroll: "When a person can relate to his friends that he has bought an Uzi, it puts him in a different league." Some think Woolworth is putting itself in a new league. "It is outrageous, reckless, foolhardy and perverse," says Lieut. Mike Gonzalez of the Miami police homicide division...
...selecting the marshals, seniors rank their choices for first marshal. The "preferential" voting process takes into account not only how many "first choice" votes a candidate gets, but also the number and rank of that person as an alternate choice. Seniors can vote for as many candidates as they like...
coxswain (cox): the little person in the rear of the shell. He or she stears the shell, keeps the rowers informed of their progress in the race and controls the pace of the shell by calling for power strokes and the sprint...
scull: to row with two blades. This is as opposed to sweeping, which is with one blade per person. Sculling can be an individual sport. A shell with just one sculler is called a single...