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...landscape is more beautiful--and eerie--than any place you will ever visit. Where else will you find huge boulders looming out of miles of yellow grass? Or multi-colored cliffs hanging over placid lakes...
...talents to basketball or football. But at 14, Robert Pipkins was already enamored of gymnastics and swimming. That was uncommon enough for a New York City youth, but after his mother brought home a flyer about tryouts for the junior national luge team, Pipkins decided to travel to Lake Placid and give it a try. He immediately loved the luge for the "exciting and risky" way the tiny sled carries one man at high speed. In January, after only three months of top-level training, Pipkins, 18, became a member of the U.S. Olympic luge team. Two weeks later...
...Crimson made key mistakes throughout the game including bad penalties, errant passes, poorly timed forechecks and looked placid during the final period...
Three months after the gulf war ended, Saudi Arabia seems to have returned to its placid ways. But the calm atmosphere is a mirage. Operation Desert Storm may be over, but it has unleashed powerful political and social crosswinds in the kingdom. Buffeted by the currents, King Fahd is struggling to preserve a precarious balance between secular moderates and religious conservatives while opening up the family-run government to his subjects. At stake is not only the direction of Saudi society, but also the survival of a royal dynasty that has ruled the country since its founding 60 years...
...Radcliffe women's varsity crew fell two boats short of glory on the placid waters of Lake Waramaug, Conn. Sunday...