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...sense of mid-'60s retro time warp seems almost deliberate. The omnipresent piped-in music is a dated, Muzaky mishmash. Outside the vast white Pavilion of the Future sits the pan-European Ariane 4 rocket. There is a heliport and, of course, a monorail...
Although the U.S. government stated that no explosives were aboard, fire fighters heard small arms popping all over the place and saw debris flying into the air from delayed explosions. "There were 30 to 40 such explosions," the Gander fire chief reported. Later, live rocket rounds were found among the wreckage, as was an 80-lb. (32-kg) duffel bag stuffed with U.S. currency...
...Wonderland'sclientele already watches the races on closed-circuit TV. There just isn't that much toexperience. As Vader wrote, "there are no manesand tail blowing, no bright silks, no sweat nobloodlines going back centuries, no Old Kentuckyhome," Wonderland runs ads featuring abasset houndnamed Buck-O with a rocket strapped to his backbeneath the legend, "The Basic Idea BehindGreyhound Racing." They're supposed to betongue-in-cheek. But that is the basic idea behindgreyhound racing. It's too damn fast. by the timeyou've figured out which dog is the one you beton, the race is over...
...World League has spiced up the rules a little to keep their product exciting and different from the NFL. For example, the World League offers the two-point conversion after a touchdown. And on kickoffs, a flat tee is used to make higher kickoffs more difficult, thus encouraging the Rocket Ismail-type return. The newest change is the overtime system. During the 10 minute overtime, each team gets to possess the ball of offense, at least once. The team that scores the most points wins. If the score is still tied after 10 minutes, the game ends...
...plot of the story was familiar to any science-fiction fan. The crew of a rocket ship returns to earth after a long space voyage only to find everything changed. It was exactly that way for Sergei Krikalev. When he blasted off in May 1991, he was one of the proudest of elites, a Soviet cosmonaut. Last week, when he came back after 313 days in orbit, he found a different world...