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...though he was still only the third best sprinter in Texas upon graduation. When Hart recruited Johnson for Baylor, located 100 miles south of Dallas, the coach thought he was just getting another runner for his 4 x 100-m relay team. "I didn't see him as a Southwest Conference champion, much less a national champion," says Hart. "But it's not the first time I was wrong, or the last." Johnson might have made the 1988 Olympic team as a sophomore, but he suffered a stress fracture in one leg. The next year a pulled quadriceps caused...
Farmers and ranchers across the blistered Southwest and Lower Plains have already experienced a rough spring, with no relief on the horizon. They have watched winter-wheat crops wither and die. Kansas normally produces 360 million to 420 million bushels of wheat annually; the estimate for this year is 185 million bushels. "Personally, I think those estimates are a bit high," says Mike Brown, president of the Kansas Association of Wheat Growers. "I hope they're on the low side, but I wouldn't be surprised if [the crop] was below 150 million...
...level of personal involvement had gone beyond what any manager could hope to expend. For example, administrators say he would get letters from people who would suggest changes--like moving the University to the Southwest where heating bills would be lower and respond with multi-page handwritten letters...
...declaring she would not fly ValuJet. Perhaps she was familiar with the FAA report issued just nine days before the crash and first published by the Chicago Tribune last week. According to that document, the low-cost carriers as a group--the analysts removed the large and well-established Southwest--had an accident rate that was far higher than that of the major carriers. (Accidents include such lesser incidents as momentary loss of engine power, as well as those in which a passenger is injured or killed.) And of the upstart group, ValuJet's rate--3.06 accidents...
Digging up dinosaur bones is always a grueling business, but conditions in the Kem Kem wilderness of southwest Morocco last summer were especially bad. The temperature soared to 120 degrees F almost every day, and the fossils were hundreds of feet up, poking out of the dusty face of a sandstone cliff. "It was," says Paul Sereno of the University of Chicago, who led the joint U.S.-Moroccan expedition, "the most brutal fieldwork I've ever done." Worse yet, the team wasn't finding much--lots of moderately interesting bits and pieces but nothing even close to a major discovery...