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...already smashed his first homer of the season hours earlier in a 12-0 Cornell blowout, and now he had 10 scouts with radar guns there to see him pitch. He was facing a Harvard lineup reeling from an embarrassing five-hit performance. He had all the momentum...
...trespassing laws be damned when there’s baseball to practice. For Walsh, no measure was too extreme when it came to getting his team playing time, even for the low-on-the-radar Division III Rams. After 14 years as head coach at Suffolk, Walsh was used to scrambling for practice space in any way he could. In an effort to play the maximum number of games possible, he once split his squad so that they could play two opponents on separate fields simultaneously. It was challenging, but exhilarating. It made their wins all the more impressive...
...mile supply line into Iraq from Kuwait that has been subject to constant Iraqi harassment. And getting "there" in the lumbering HC-130, a big, slow target for surface-to-air missiles (SAMs), means flying about 300 feet above the desert and passing through a gauntlet of Iraqi radar systems. Because of all the surface-to-air-missile beacons in the area, alarms go off in the cabin. And one pesky mobile SAM battery has been roaming around and targeting incoming planes for weeks--hence the southern approach, coming in above a stretch of remote desert that is patrolled...
...may—I am beginning to realize that unless you plan to take his computer science class next year, Harry Lewis is a non-issue. I fear that our interest in the forced resignation of Lewis the individual has allowed vastly more important issues to slip beneath the radar...
...summer Tuesday in Washington, including gay-community leaders, federal bureaucrats and the investigative team from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that had taken a lead role in tracking the situation. What was it? A disease that just 13 months earlier had blipped on the CDC's radar screen was rapidly turning epidemic, particularly among gay men and drug addicts. Yet no one agreed on what to call it. Because the disease critically weakened the immune system and was often accompanied by a rare cancer, it had been labeled gay-related immune deficiency, or GRID, by some people...