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Trading in the lightning strikes that have come to typify its style for a more measured pace, the Crimson offense strung together four scoring drives of 12 plays or more, each time surpassing four minutes of possession...
...Want a real Dream Team? The U.S. finished 9-0 for the tournament, and until the sixth inning of yesterday's game, when Australia strung together a small two-out rally, the team's ERA was 0.00 (they outscored opponents 51-1 over the nine games). U.S. third baseman Crystal Bustos hit two home runs in the gold medal game, including one shot that landed somewhere in Crete, giving her five for the tournament. The other seven teams hit five home runs combined. Says one fan: "These girls could beat the Milwaukee Brewers...
...crowded with a jostling throng of trees, tall leatherwoods dropping white blossoms into the foam-covered eddies. Thick forest stretches away in every direction, and there is no sign of a human touch, until the third day, when, exhilarated after a series of simple rapids, we see heavy wires strung high across a narrow gorge. In 1982 protestors began a blockade of the river to stop government plans to dam it. They arrived a month before the bulldozers, and in the following months 1,200 people were arrested in a campaign so successful that the river's fate became...
...traditional archery competitions held in the snow-swept Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, women play a crucial role. But it's not as athletes aiming bamboo bows strung with lengths of stinging-nettle vine. Instead, Bhutanese women cluster near the male archers and take sole responsibility for keeping them from piercing the bull's-eye. "We distract them by singing rude songs," says Tshering Chhoden. "It's all part of the game." Adds her fellow Bhutanese Dhruba Kumar Chhetri: "The best thing to say is that the archer's wife has been sleeping around. That makes his concentration slip a little...
...plight of North Korean refugees in South Korea has long been a controversial issue, one that the Seoul government would rather keep out of the newspapers so as not to damage ultrasensitive relations with Pyongyang's high-strung dictator, Kim Jong Il. But hiding refugees from the media became more difficult last week, when 468 North Koreans?the largest group to reach the South since the end of the Korean War?stepped off two jets at a military airport south of Seoul ready to take their place in South Korean society. The group, which had been hiding in Vietnam after...