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...That can't be measured exactly. Travel is, in some crucial way, a subjective emotional experience. The delighted Dr. Johnson's carriage jounced along down urban corridors of dust or mud. But the rig was, for its time, a Rolls-Royce. Travel is literally a state of mind. When trains got started in the early 19th century, people thought that moving 20 m.p.h. might cause insanity. On the other hand, it is not speed but an enraging motionlessness - the stalled freeway, or the runway where you sit for an hour or two awaiting takeoff - that causes derangement today...
...girl friend Karen Darvin, 20, a freckled, leggy model from Texas, in a small apartment on Manhattan's East Side. More frequently, he is down on the Jersey shore, where he has just moved into more comfortable--but not lavish--quarters, and bought his first decent hi-fi rig. He remains adamantly indifferent to clothing and personal adornment, although he wears a small gold cross around his neck--a vestigial remnant of Catholicism--and, probably to challenge it, a small gold ring in his left ear, which gives him a little gypsy flash. When he is not working, Springsteen takes...
...This is not the first time the club has been smeared. In 1996, jockey Stanley Chin was arrested for bribing other riders to throw a race at Hong Kong's Sha Tin track. Chin, who was paid by a businessman from mainland China to rig the order of finish so punters could cash in on a long-shot combination bet, was sentenced to three years in prison. No charges have been filed as yet in Operation Green. The Jockey Club had no official comment, but chief executive Larry Wong acknowledges the investigation "is an emotional setback...
...enmity between Mugabe's ruling zanu-pf party and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change violent. Watch for arbitrary arrests of opposition supporters, journalists and anyone else not prepared to bow to Mugabe's dictatorial ways. If things get really ugly, the military could step in. Mugabe will rig the election; when he wins, Zimbabwe will be further criticized and isolated...
...Salt Lake City won the Games. By pursuing victory at all cost, the local boosters sullied their high standards in much the same way that steroid-popping athletes do. Purity was sacrificed to pragmatism. The Salt Lake City Olympic committee pulled a sort of financial Tanya Harding, hoping to rig the results in the arena by pulling shameful shenanigans in the alley. The Olympic flame may symbolize great things, but lately it's had a tendency to burn people...