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...same year the Soviet boycott forced him to miss the L.A. Olympics (two weeks before, he jumped six inches higher than the eventual gold medalist). He won a gold of his own at Seoul in 1988, and then set his sights on 20 ft.--a seemingly superhuman barrier that like the four-minute mile and the 8-ft. high jump, was regarded for years as insurmountable. He crashed through the ceiling in March 1991 and then, during an eight-day rampage, mocked his own achievement by bettering it twice...
...YEAR NOW, EHTIOPIAN DISTANCE RUNNER HAILE Gebrselassie has looked little short of superhuman. Last summer on the track he was undefeated in races at four distances and set world records in three. His 5,000-m record of 12:44.39 bettered the previous mark by the biggest margin (10.91 sec) in 63 years and is widely regarded as the greatest track performance in history. This winter he competed indoors for the first time and set two world records, again by stupendous margins. He talked of running the 5,000 and the 10,000 in Atlanta and looked a prohibitive favorite...
...series of televised space walks that riveted the nation's attention in December 1993. Floating on the verge of a black void, the crew of the shuttle Endeavour checked off one item after another on their impossible list until, in what Bahcall calls a display of "superhuman intelligence and ability," they were done. NASA's badly battered reputation was on the line, but within days the report came in: the images were excellent. "It was hard to believe," Bahcall remembers. "Each instrument worked exactly as it was designed...
...impossible to tell what gender a particular dancer is; the women are as strong as the men and the men as graceful as the women. Everyone is androgynous and, for the most part, of undiscernable race, a superhuman grouof powerful, raceless, sexless beings, so talented that it is clear they could not be mere mortals...
...Truth), may be the man of whom all Japan is terrified right now, but not so many years ago he was simply a failed purveyor of health tonics. Bushy-bearded and usually pictured wearing satiny pajamas, Asahara, 40, admires Hitler, boasts that he can levitate and offers to bestow superhuman powers on his disciples. Yet a look at his life reveals a rather pathetic figure at war with the world because he could not find an easy place...