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...trail of Tiger Woods took TIME to New Orleans, where the youngest winner of golf's grand slam was conducting a clinic for local kids. On hand were assistant managing editor Dan Goodgame, staff writer Romesh Ratnesar and photographer Herb Ritts, who flew from Los Angeles for the shoot. "I've worked with just about everybody, from Presidents to rock stars," says Ritts, "and Tiger lived up to his reputation. He was a very cool guy, very easy and humble. He was very in the moment. We hit it off very well." Before meeting up with Woods in New Orleans...
...over their bodies run around in a circle of red-lit cameras. The cameras bounce signals off the balls and create a framework for the computer to replicate their bodies. This is called motion capture, and it tends to be used sparingly in video games to clone, say, the slam-dunk moves of an NBA player. In Fantasy, it's used for each one of the movie's estimated 1,500 shots in which any of its hundreds of characters move their body...
Johnny Miller hit the nail on the head in his piece praising golfer Tiger Woods [ESSAY, July 3]. But there's more: how a 24-year-old could become the youngest winner of golf's Grand Slam eludes words. Anyone who has not seen this man in action should switch on the TV and watch him play a full tournament. I'm a 20-year-old who is finally getting a chance to see a superstar in the making. I've become a fan and player of golf in no small part thanks to Tiger. The scary thing...
...predictability recedes into a small speck on the horizon, as more and more of what I think and see and feel is filtered through new lenses, the wonderment with which I approach the world swells. Every red-earth-encrusted-nook, every monsoon-dampened-cranny, every horn blast and door-slam and shantytown and palace-wall screams of its life-altering-potentiality and bears the message that small places often conceal large secrets that an overly-habituated mind is too lazy to uncover...
What's a country to do when bad news is going to slam its national airline? Hire some Washington spinners and aviation consultants, if the investigation into EgyptAir Flight 990 is anything to go by. After the National Transportation Safety Board reached a preliminary analysis that the crash that killed 217 in October was caused by a suicidal co-pilot, GAMIL EL-BATOUTI, Egypt applied political pressure in Washington and is spending freely on a public relations effort. A slew of experts were hired to press the issue for EgyptAir, including former NTSB chairman CARL VOGT and several former NTSB...