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...Last season he took five World Cup downhills. The race is a mad descent of at least 800 meters, with few control gates, at speeds that can reach 80 or 85 m.p.h. The giant slalom, or GS, bridges downhill and slalom extremes in a beautiful, treacherous dance of large-radius turns. The super-G has not quite taken on its own character; it is either a slow, curvy downhill or a fast, stretched-out GS. Zurbriggen, going through high-speed gates in GS or super-G, is unmistakable: a big, rangy cat springing from turn to turn, from coiled crouch...
...same direction (same-side steering) as the front wheels, or in the opposite direction (countersteering). Most of the new four-wheel-steer autos are capable of both countersteering and same-side steering. In sharp, slow-speed turns, countersteering can shave a full yard off a standard sedan's turning radius. At high speeds, however, countersteering can make a car dangerously unstable, while same-side steering actually improves the ride...
...months of being started up last year, when it suffered another setback: Chernobyl. The meltdown at the Soviet nuclear plant in April 1986 prompted Democratic Governor Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts to block the opening by refusing to participate in an evacuation plan for the area within a ten-mile radius of the plant. Last week, however, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's staff recommended a controversial change in federal rules that would allow such plants to proceed over the objections of neighboring officials...
Current NRC rules virtually preclude licensing a nuclear plant unless state and local officials cooperate in emergency planning for residents within a 10-mile radius. The proposed change would allow the commission to approve evacuation plans drawn up solely by the utilities, if local officials balk...
...work. I've sharpened every pencil within a five mile radius. I've shaved, overeaten, cleaned my desk, showered, made tentative plans to someday do my laundry, and called all past and present acquaintances plus a few phoney phone calls because I'm such a cut-up. I am now ready to begin my studies...