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...degrees], he looks as if he is nearly upright. This is as high as he has ever gone. He looks out the window of his gym at Will's playhouse and at the daffodils and the pines. He goes to 78 [degrees]. When he reaches his personal record of 80 [degrees], he stops. The nurses are staring at him in amazement. His trainer remarks with admiration how tall...
...former decathlete Daley Thompson. The 400 Michael checks in on his Website www.michaeljohnson.com to answer fan mail, and carries with him a letter from Ruth Owens in which she writes that she sees her late husband Jesse in him. "Greatest compliment I've ever been paid," says Johnson, whose upright running style has often been compared to that of the '36 Olympics hero. On the other hand, the 200 Michael plots a product line called "The Danger Zone" and heaps even more pressure on himself by having Nike make him nine pairs of gold shoes for the Games. "Sure...
...event leaves the rest of us in a state of unease and vulnerability. The flight attendant still instructs us to fasten our seat belts and to bring our seat backs and tray tables to an upright position before takeoff--all the irritating in-flight punctilio, with its bloodless ritual language--but as we strap ourselves in, our minds are projecting fireballs, and calculating odds, and trying to calm themselves more urgently than before. The worst part of jet travel is our eggs-in-a-carton passivity: inert flesh encapsulated for a leap of faith that may be (we tell ourselves...
...late touchdown by host Cornell left Harvard trailing 28-27. But the team put itself in a position to win, as it did all season, and came up short, as it did all season. The potential game-winning field goal bounced wide off the right upright, defining the entire fall for Harvard...
...Random House; 368 pages; $24), centered on the large-brained human species that, as far as paleontologists are concerned, became extinct about 27,000 years ago. Simultaneously, screenwriter Petru Popescu has weighed in with Almost Adam (William Morrow; 544 pages; $24), about australopiths, a group of small-brained but upright-walking human precursors whose most recent fossils are more than a million years old. Eschewing time machines and historical settings, both authors have opted to have modern paleoanthropologists come face to face with relict populations of early hominids in remote and unexplored corners of the world: the Pamir Mountains...