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RETIRED. MARK MCGWIRE, 38, the American baseball slugger who enthralled fans in 1998 as he chased and then broke Roger Maris' single-season home-run record only to see Barry Bonds eclipse the mark this year; in St. Louis. McGwire, a 12-time All-Star first baseman who hit a...
Birkeland, a native Norwegian, spent a year on a remote Finnish mountain tracking the magnetic fields of the Earth and their relationship to the auroras, the so-called northern lights. At the end of the nineteenth century, the setting of Jago’s account, the northern lights were still...
The European front: After anthrax scares or threats, a train was evacuated in Italy, eleven Poles were sent to hospital for observation and three Czechs were sprayed with disinfectant. A dozen people in France are undergoing tests after one of them opened a "suspicious" piece of mail.
The structure is imposing and impressive. Constructed using nary a power or even hand tool, the bed has been lofted on a frame made entirely of wooden poles and rope. Three of the poles actually came all the way from Matchett’s home state of Wisconsin in the...
Matchett used a system called “lashing” to secure the poles. “It’s what sailors use to keep things together. You bind the wood together with rope, then wrap more rope around those bindings. The friction in the ropes keeps anything...