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Under the new guidelines, boats must be 30% lighter and have 40% more sail ) area and hulls 20% longer than the former 12-m (13.1-yd.) boats. The boats may mix sail size, hull size and weight in any way they choose so long as, according to a complicated mathematical formula, the numbers add up to 42,000 m (45,900 yds.). From an infinite number of combinations, the boat designers try to find the best mix -- with the help of computers, water tanks and wind tunnels. Their efforts focus on three key areas...
...state of California might as well have executed Harris on the 50-yd. line at half time of the Super Bowl -- the two moral constituencies, pro-death penalty and con, cheering or shrieking from either side of the stadium, the federal judiciary hovering overhead like a black blimp. When Harris was finally dead, America saw the postgame show: witnesses to the execution describing how the prisoner may or may not have mouthed the words "I'm sorry" to the father of one of the victims; breathed the fumes; convulsed and drooled; then died...
...Audio- Animatronics dragon that snorts steam, flashes its stoplight eyes and bares claws nearly as long as Barbra Streisand's in The Prince of Tides. Kids love teasing the reptile; take them to see it. And lose them, if you care to, in Alice's Curious Labyrinth, a 400-yd. maze dominated by a tennis court-size Cheshire cat painted in flowers. You can get lost -- really lost -- among the high hedges and the pop-up Carroll characters...
...rule of journalism (and of life itself, I suppose) that you do not ask hard questions at the top of a man's backswing. So I waited until Clinton had parred the 440-yd. eighth hole, where the green had been spray-painted with the words CLASS WAR. THE POOR WILL RISE. Clinton's comment, "I hope they do," seemed like a decent opening, and I asked if he knew that the wife of a Bush Cabinet member had told some friends that the Republicans had "the goods" on Clinton's alleged womanizing but wouldn't pounce until the general...
...Torzhenko's house on a busy street in the center of the south Russian city of Krasnodar. But the elderly manual laborer and his wife Alexandra are determined not to give up the pigs or the dozen ducks they keep in two ramshackle wood shacks on their 15-sq.-yd. plot. In fact, the couple seem to be settling in for a long siege. "Around here, they steal," says Torzhenko, so he has dug a cellar with concrete walls and a heavy metal trapdoor to store pork and the potatoes he grows on a parcel of rural land in this...