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...snap, Holy Cross broke through the line of scrimmage as Kingston prepared to punt the ball away. Senior wide receiver Nick Larsen fully extended his arms and blocked the kick, which was returned to the 15-yard line, setting up another Crusader touchdown...
...been called Bunn, Wackett, Buzzard, Stubble and Boot, since you are fed up before the end of the chapter with reading that it might have been. The saving grace of Autobiography is that it's a handsome beast of a coffee-table book. The special edition comes with snap-on legs and a set of crockery - perhaps the book's best inside joke - and it is crammed with photographs that remind you what a uniquely funny (and extremely silly) team they were. Terry Gilliam's graphics and stills of his sets and costumes remind you that Monty Python's Holy...
...microcosmic Brooklyn block: the ball games, the one empty house, the guy who's always washing his car, a bully drawn with scary accuracy. You can practically hear the kids' voices as they goof on Dylan's name: "D-Man," "John Dillinger," "D-Lone," "Lonely D," "Dill-icious." Ho, snap! Halfway through the book, you could draw the block from memory...
...Nuclear Traces IRAN The U.N.'s nuclear weapons watchdog confirmed that inspectors found particles of highly enriched uranium at a nuclear power plant south of Tehran. Iran claimed the weapons-grade samples originated from equipment imported onto the Natanz site, and says it will discuss letting the U.N. conduct snap inspections. Souvenir Hunters THE U.K. Thieves posing as tourists made off with a Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece worth around $50 million. The work, Madonna of the Yarnwinder, hung in the stairway of Scotland's Drumlanrig Castle. Insurers put up a $160,000 reward for the recovery of the work. Deep...
...capacity to generate power and too few means of moving it around smoothly. Over the past 10 years, electricity demand has jumped 30%, but transmission capacity has increased only half that much. Because everything is tied together, too much strain in one place can cause the whole system to snap. Officials learned that lesson in the blackouts of 1965, and 38 years later, they learned that all the safeguards put in place ever since may no longer be adequate...