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Davis came through in a big way for B.C. with four kills and a block in a span of seven points, allowing the Eagles to pull away down the stretch, taking the frame...
Each contestant lifts her leg gracefully to show her famed decorated shoes: Iowa’s pig and corn pair, Arizona’s Diamondback snake wrapped around her calves. Heads move in quarter turns, and smiles remain frozen wide for the entire four mile stretch of the Boardwalk. Between the queens are South Jersey Vietnam veterans, wary police officers circling on bikes, the trucks of local businesses, and something preternaturally perky called “The Miss America Bike Team...
...Virgil Ware, 13, soared down a lonely stretch of road outside Birmingham, Ala., perched on the handlebars of his brother's bicycle, he was happily unaware of the carnage downtown. It was Sunday, Sept. 15, 1963. At 10:22 that morning, four black girls had been killed by a dynamite bomb set by the Ku Klux Klan at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. The church was a focal point of Birmingham's civil rights turmoil that year, but that unrest hadn't touched Virgil and his coal-mining family, who lived in a modest, all-black suburb and rarely even...
...James rode James' bike to Docena, where an uncle had a scrapyard. The church bombing had already occurred, but word hadn't reached their uncle's when, shortly after 4 p.m., they headed home after failing to find a bike for Virgil. The boys took a rural stretch called the Docena-Sandusky Road, flanked by pine and mimosa trees rising from a tangle of swamp grass and kudzu. As Virgil clutched the handlebars, telling his brother where to steer, James says, they laughed about the girls they would pick up in their...
...space or searching the moon for the isotope helium 3 for possible use in nuclear fusion reactors-could be accomplished more cheaply and easily with robotic explorers. Many predict that after the political goal of putting a man in space has been achieved, the program's timetables will stretch. Yet few Chinese scientists have dared to question the manned program openly. One who did, Wang Xiji, designed China's first recoverable satellites and argued in a technical journal last year that China "should not choose the moon and Mars" for a manned program because it "is not likely to make...