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...Speaking of Anna, she couldn't come - she and Mary couldn't make it. So the big thing this year was all these little girls - 16, like - trying to scoop the boys like Anna does. There was this one from Florida - Hackle-something - and what she was wearing! I couldn't believe her mom and dad let her out in that thing! Yes, her dad was there, and he said something like, "Well, it's okay, looking nice for the boys is okay," or something like that. Unbelieveable! His own daughter. I guess I'm getting old. Senior year...
...Back at the American village a month after the incident, a matsuri (festival) is in full swing. Children wave cotton candy and scoop at goldfish with paper nets. Shirtless skateboarders do stunts on an open walkway. Women in shorts and bikini tops lick at jewel-colored snow cones. In the shadow of a giant Ferris wheel with a Coca-Cola logo and a two-story emporium called the American Depot march a cavalry of drum-banging young Japanese men. They're sweating through their traditional Okinawan outfits of purple bandannas and swinging orange coats...
...Tourists scoop up some of the illicit bargains, but the best artifacts are bought by dealers filling orders from Europe, the U.S. and South Africa. Using a letter from the N.C.M.M. permitting him to export contemporary arts and crafts--but not antiquities--Lagos dealer Chinedu Idezuna recently booked a crateful of works onto a flight to Amsterdam. "Customs officials check the shipment for narcotics, for this and that, but because I've got the letter, I'm fine," he says. "Our government doesn't permit it, of course, but we gallery owners get [objects] out by telling [customs officials] that...
...emergency-room physician who had hopped onto the helicopter when he heard there had been a shark attack. "You've basically run the pump dry." The medics could well have declared Jessie dead. But Smith and paramedic Chris Warnock had kept the chopper's engines running for a "scoop and run" and with Jessie's uncle, they carried the boy to the chopper. "He was kind of like a rag doll," Smith says. Inside, the medics continued CPR and inserted a breathing tube. They had been on the ground less than 6 min. As they closed the door, they asked...
Rather than try to scoop each other, the friendly rivals decided to cooperate--and soon realized they had stumbled onto something truly astonishing. The new supernova, some 50% closer to the beginning of the universe than any supernova known before, was far brighter than had been predicted. That neatly eliminated the idea of dust, since a more distant star should have been even more dust-dimmed than nearer ones. But the level of brightness also signaled that this supernova was shining when the expansion of the cosmos was still slowing down. "Usually," says Riess, "we see weird things...