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SPORT Nolan Ryan's time-warp triumph...
...very thin strings of pure energy might have survived in their original state rather than cooling off with the rest of the universe. These cosmic strings would be infinitesimally thin but unbelievably dense, with a thousand trillion tons of mass for every inch of length. The enormous mass would warp the region around a cosmic string so that space itself would act like a distorting lens. Two light rays from a single source -- a star, for example -- could travel by two totally different paths, one on each side of the string, and still end up at the same place...
With all these aches and pains, Ryan's fate was predictable: he was carried from the field. But the only injury was to the Blue Jays; Ryan's joyous teammates hoisted him to their shoulders after he pitched his seventh no- hitter, a time-warp classic that even the self-effacing Texan described as "my most overpowering night." Only two Blue Jays reached first base on walks; only four hitters managed to loft fly balls to the outfield. The scorecard for the game looked like a bowl of Special K, the letter baseball uses to symbolize each of Ryan...
...indistinguishable from the real thing? What is a "place" in cyberspace, the universe occupied by audio and video signals traveling across state and national borders at nearly the speed of light? Or as Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe aptly summarized, "When the lines along which our Constitution is drawn warp or vanish, what happens to the Constitution itself...
...these kids living in a rustic time warp? Yes. Not far away from the Pine Grove schoolhouse sit two wooden outhouses and the old pickup Cal Phipps drives to school. He is only 13, but there is no school-bus service. Jordan -- nearby by Montana standards -- is the seat of Garfield County, 4,500 sq. mi., where the cattle outnumber the 1,600 humans and the flatlands are ribboned with cliffs called the Missouri Breaks. No one from Pine Grove in recent memory has ventured so far as Chicago for college, and Los Angeles might as well be Pluto...