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...would be a harsh judge who condemned the crew's showing. "They made a few mistakes on the racetrack-probably a few more than Alinghi," says Craig Monk, a member of the Kiwis' America's Cup-winning teams of 1995 and 2000. "Alinghi are so experienced and they just pounced. Our guys learned the hard way against the best team in the world...
...seen since Spectacular Bid in 1979. Vast ability aside, he had all the extras: a classic pedigree, a gentlemanly demeanor and a body that could be by da Vinci. Two weeks later, he shattered his right hind leg in the Preakness. Barbaro may have hobbled off the racetrack with his promise unfulfilled, but in his eight-month struggle to survive, he became the most enriching story in sports, the warm center of a high-wire drama that featured two owners who spared no expense trying to save him; a team of caregivers at the University of Pennsylvania's New Bolton...
...couldn’t own his store anymore because he was an alien,” Fujimoto recalls. “They were given a week’s notice to leave everything behind, and were sent off to live in horse stables for a year at a racetrack in Seattle. After that, they were imprisoned for two years at the Minidoka concentration camp in Idaho. They weren’t even allowed to attend my graduation...
...software that analyzes thousands of variables--from weather and road conditions to fuel levels and competitors' probable actions--and how they may interact to affect a car's performance, before and during a race. The program spits out possible options and assesses the chances of success. Now that racetrack technology is coming to the equally fast-paced world of business...
...racetrack used to be Carlyon's beat, but a visit to Gallipoli in 1998 left him "completely besotted with the place. I wanted to know more and more." For a writer, war offers an incomparable canvas, he says: "It's life and death. Everything's there." The titanic scale of the First World War and its domination by machines?artillery, bombs, tanks, planes, machine guns?only underscored the humanity of the combatants. For Carlyon the war was "the biggest tragedy in our history." But those who took part did "astonishing things," he writes?like the capture of the heavily defended...