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...That he won despite appearing boxed in and off the pace for much of Sunday's race speaks not just of his dazzling turn of speed but of his ability to maneuver; Irish jockey Mick Kinane threaded the horse through holes in the field that were invisible to other eyes. That Sea the Stars has maintained his form over six grueling months - from the lung-busting sprint in May's 2,000 Guineas to the undulations of Epsom in June - is an even greater achievement...
...next challenge for his handlers: should they risk the reputation of the horse, owned by a Hong Kong businessman, at next month's Breeders' Cup Classic in California? After Dancing Brave won the Arc in 1986, the English-trained horse's career ended on a disappointing note at the same U.S. track. Besides, Sea the Stars, foaled by American mare Urban Sea, herself an Arc winner in 1993, could be worth $160 million if he is retired to stud. (Read "Sports: Furlongs Behind...
Chenoweth and Gillespie finished 1-2 in the Harvard-Yale meet last year, making this the second straight year that Chenoweth has won. The experience only makes him more dangerous...
Early this morning, Dr. Jack Szostak of Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School learned that he and two colleagues had won the Nobel Prize in medicine for their work with telomerase, an enzyme that prevents chromosomes from, um, "fraying." Yeah. We'll leave our explanation at that...
...still in the air, war in Iraq presses on with no end in sight and a daily price tag well into the millions. And now, President Obama is preparing to ramp up the “good war” in Afghanistan. The United States hasn’t won a ground war in over half a century, and now one of the smartest presidents in modern American history thinks he can win two of them. One struggles in vain to find the logic in this lunacy...