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...plains feels like a fan-forced oven. But there's no wind 60 m below, where the flat bowl of the crater is still and stifling, almost steamy from the moisture trapped in the sinkholes and fractures beneath the sand. The inside face is steeper. The rocks slip and clatter, startling ring-tailed dragon lizards that jut their jaws at the intruder in seeming defiance. A balancing hand placed carelessly into the spinifex needles is rewarded with a dozen tiny dots of blood; peripheral vision catches the thick brown tail of a snake gliding face-high a meter away. This...
...curious ability to flex his lower legs slightly forward at the knees, which allows him to kick 6 to 12 in. deeper in the water than his opponents. Says his father Arnold, a production engineer: "Mark's whole body is so flexible that the water just seems to slip by him." ... Said Spitz before the games: "I want to win at Munich and then quit. I never swam for glory, only the satisfaction of being recognized as the best in the world." Beyond all doubt, he has achieved that goal...
...Romans in retreat, the Saxons advancing and the severely downsized Knights of the Round Table defending civilization as they know it. Conditions in this world are not visibly much different from barbarism. Life on this frontier is rude and basic, though Guinevere (Keira Knightley) does tidy herself up and slip into something pretty before getting it on with Arthur (Clive Owen). All poor Lancelot (Ioan Gruffudd) gets, however, is a wistful peek through the window at Guinevere in dishabille and early death on the battlefield...
...thing, this summer is my opportunity to improve my physical fitness. In high school, I ran cross country and track and field, grueling sports that demand top physical form. I confess that I’ve let that slip a bit while in Cambridge, where there is too much schoolwork and too few trails and rolling hills to entice me to go on daily 90-minute runs like I used to. Now the hills are once more in my backyard, so it’s time to lace up the shoes again...
...problem as defined by Prince Bandar was clearly on display in the authorities' botched handling of that attack, during which three of the four perpetrators managed to slip through a heavy security cordon after a 24-hour killing spree that claimed 22 lives - an escape that raised eyebrows among many foreign diplomats, who saw it as improbable without somehow being sanctioned by the authorities. Others believe it was precisely because of squabbling among different elements in the Royal family with competing authority and approaches that it took 24 hours to check the rampage, only to see the perpetrators get away...