Word: sled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WITH SWEAT SLIDING DOWN HIS BROW, scientific sleuth James Starrs shoves a long steel probe down through the dirt around the grave of American explorer Meriwether Lewis. A few moments later, his team drags a radar sled across the same neatly clipped grass and around the weathered limestone monument. Their mission: to learn the truth of Lewis' mysterious death by gunshot here on a Tennessee stretch of the Natchez Trace, the old road between Natchez, Mississippi, and Nashville, Tennessee, nearly 183 years ago. Did this pioneer, whose trek to the Pacific Northwest with William Clark has been a staple...
...increase the explosive power of his legs, Powell runs on the track with an open drag parachute trailing behind him. For variety, he sometimes tows a sled...
...down and dead. Even when he was a young man, a 25-year-old making something called Citizen Kane, the legendary actor-auteur enjoyed imagining himself as a corpse onscreen. It was his impudent prophecy: that he would soon be cast on Hollywood's funeral pyre like a discarded sled...
...uphill climbing, or cheap skating (since a pair of tacos at the top of the mountains would set him back $16). When striking taxi drivers blocked the area's only highway for 10 hours one day, visitors had even more time to ponder the fact that a bob-sled here could travel 40 times faster than...
...uncommon enough for a New York City youth, but after his mother brought home a flyer about tryouts for the junior national luge team, Pipkins decided to travel to Lake Placid and give it a try. He immediately loved the luge for the "exciting and risky" way the tiny sled carries one man at high speed. In January, after only three months of top-level training, Pipkins, 18, became a member of the U.S. Olympic luge team. Two weeks later, he slid to the junior world championship in Sapporo, Japan. An engineering major at Drexel University, Pipkins is the first...