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Like most kids fortunate enough to grow up outside of the light-polluted and smog-ridden metropolis, I was fascinated by the starry night sky above me. Books about astronauts and rocket ships competed with Muppets and dinosaurs for space on my fledgling bookshelf. Back then a trip to the Hayden Planetarium in New York City was a special treat, and a morning of cartoons would not be complete without the extraterrestrial antics of the Jetsons. I knew the position of each planet relative to the sun in addition to the names of all the early astronauts. The capstone...
...Toronto--Signed the Katy Rocket, Roger Clemens. He won a national championship in 1983 for the University of Texas (I had to slip in a Longhorns reference sometime; it's in my job description). He is an addition to an already great starting rotation. Offense, other than Joe Carter could be a problem...
...first place to start with is the Admissions Committee. Harvard is simply taking too many rocket scientists who speak 12 languages and win math competitions in their free time. While it's important that Harvard maintain academic integrity and not start taking knuckle heads, it's essential that the Admissions Committee realize that Harvard sports are in jeopardy of falling apart...
After a number of failed scoring chances, Keri-Anne Allan blasted a high rocket from just inside the Crimson's blue line. Harvard goaltender Jen Bowdoin got her glove on the puck only to have it rebound into the lower left corner of the goal...
...Allen had to bail him out of jail after one midnight escapade. He got three speeding tickets--two from the same cop who was trailing him--just on the drive from Albuquerque the weekend he moved Microsoft to Seattle. Later he bought a Porsche 930 Turbo he called the "rocket," then a Mercedes, a Jaguar XJ6, a $60,000 Carrera Cabriolet 964, a $380,000 Porsche 959 that ended up impounded in a customs shed because it couldn't meet import emission standards, and a Ferrari 348 that became known as the "dune buggy" after he spun it into...