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...anomalous "singularity," which Hawking drew to resemble a protruding belly-button, sticks out on the southern pole of the universe. Hawking said that it could be detected through astronomical observations...

Author: By Jimmy Davis, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hawking Defends 'Anthropic Principle' of Cosmology | 10/6/1999 | See Source »

...prepare for the Senior Games, Mulkey sprints daily along the streets of Marietta, Ga., outside Atlanta, and pole vaults an average of three times a week. He then downs a breakfast that would turn a health faddist ashen: scrambled eggs, sausage and biscuits and two hotcakes at a local fast-food spot. Vitamins B and C are the only supplements he takes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In The Long Run | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

Pain is a constant--sharper on some days than others. "Some things I dread," he says," like coming down the runway for the first pole vault. I say, oh, God, I hate to do this. Once you begin to loosen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In The Long Run | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

...competition, he is sociable, but not during. "The adrenaline gets going, and how can you combine that with cordiality?" he asks. "I'm the worst guy out there." Or perhaps the best. Since 1989, he has won 15 gold medals and has set 14 national Senior Games records in pole vault, high jump, long jump, discus and shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In The Long Run | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

...Next was Sydney Browning, the children's choir director, resting on a sofa in the foyer, followed by a young man who had been selling Christian CDs. In the sanctuary, the shooter found a roomful of adolescents, happily celebrating that morning's observance of See You at the Pole, an annual national event in which Christian teens gather around their school flagpoles before classes to pray. A band called Forty Days was playing a song titled Alle, alleluia, when Ashbrook was allegedly invited to accept the Lord. He moved to the back of the sanctuary, banged a door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terror In The Sanctuary | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

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