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...Which would be last Monday night, maybe the greatest night in track history. I know what you're thinking, honey, but trust me, I'm not saying this because of all the blondes in the pole vault. By the time I started noticing, only one of them was left, Tatiana Grigorieva, the Australian ?migr?e from Russia. It was down to her against our Stacy Draglia. Tatiana was interesting: She's only been here for a year, only vaulting for three. Maybe she thought she was still a Russian, because she barely noticed that the crowd was going crazy...
Chabon's facts and fabrications are mutually supporting. At least until Joe Kavalier, itching to get into the war and kill Nazis, ends up as a U.S. Navy radioman who escapes the South Pole in a homemade plane whose wings and fuselage are covered with the skins of dozens of seals and one beloved...
...current condition of patches of open water near the North Pole is not a new one caused by man-made influences or by this generation. Historical evidence documents the presence of crops in Greenland for a few centuries after it was settled by the Vikings, a millennium ago. These atmospheric climate changes occur naturally. The sky isn't falling, and we aren't permanently melting the polar ice. LOREN D. HAMLIN Tucson, Ariz...
...Olympics in Paris in 1896 there were no women competitors at all. In Sydney they number about 4,400, making up about 42 percent of competitors in 121 events. For the first time at these Games, women are taking part in modern pentathlon, taekwondo, water polo, hammer throw and pole vault as well as weight lifting...
...people want to go to the Olympics, and only so many tickets are available. So to keep everybody happy, you sometimes have to stretch the definition of sport. This, no doubt, is how the Greeks came up with the pole vault. And this year offers a bounty of stupid sports to mollify the masses. Not only did I score you gymnastics tickets, you valuable client you, but they're for this year's newest Olympic sport, trampolining...