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...just risen over the northeastern tip of Long Island, and an icy wind was blowing in from Gardiners Bay. Except for screeching herring gulls and other hungry birds, the only sign of life on this blustery (20° F.) winter morning was a small column of people bundled against the cold and quietly stalking across a frozen marsh. "Hey, there's a blackback!" exclaimed their leader. "And look over there, some goldeneyes." Fighting through thick reeds and tall grass, the bird watchers soon spotted other feathered friends: half a dozen stout-bodied, short-necked diving ducks called white-winged...
Aman has a tip for Americans wishing to improve their verbal-abuse techniques: "Look for a distinguishing characteristic. Each of us is deviant in some way. For instance, I wear glasses, I'm five-foot-seven, 20 pounds overweight, have short hair and a Kissinger accent. So you could start off calling me a fat, four-eyed, runty, reactionary, sewer-mouth Kraut." Still, he considers it unsporting, and sometimes destructive, for cursers to pick on physical characteristics. Says he: "Insults should be aimed at behavior, something a person can change...
Although the area around the tip of South Africa has some of the globe's busiest sea lanes, through which tankers haul about 90% of the oil heading westward from the Persian Gulf, the modern navigation equipment aboard the ships should have prevented the crash. One South African official speculated that the vessels had closed in deliberately to allow their crewmen to exchange greetings. If that was true, he said, the crash of the supertankers was surely "the world's most expensive handshake...
...towering 172 IQ. Spiro Agnew says his is 135, which puts him well into the ranks of the intellectually superior. South Korea's Kim Ung-Yong, a 14-year-old prodigy who was speaking four languages and solving integral calculus problems at age four, is said to tip the mental scales at 210, worth a mention in the Guinness Book of World Records. Even Yankee Slugger Reggie Jackson brags as much about his IQ (he claims a 160) as his B.A. (his 1977 batting average was a solid...
Hooft was not exactly a one-man show though as the Harvard quintet ran wild out of the locker room to start the second half. Harvard took the second-half tip, along with a 35-22 lead, and five minutes later, after Mike Stenhouse converted a steal into a lay-up, the scoreboard read 43-24. Goodnight Dartmouth...