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...haven’t won the Cup, and it was really exciting to finally bring it back this year.” The No. 10 Radcliffe heavyweight crew’s first opportunity for timed competition did not materialize this weekend thanks to unfavorable conditions on the Charles River Basin. Originally scheduled as a dual meet, the race moved upstream and was run as an untimed event. Rowing from the BU Bridge back towards Harvard to finish at the Weeks Bridge, the Black and White raced five varsity boats as well as the novice squad, while six varsity crews from...
...Hanlon's classic Into the Heart of Borneo.) You never quite get a fix on what Fawcett means to Grann, and you find yourself wishing, uncharitably, that he would narrowly escape death a little more often. What keeps you going is the backstory. The theory that the Amazon basin conceals the capital of an advanced civilization has a long history--it's one of those ideas that's just too romantic to die. As early as the 16th century, the conquistadores were pouring men into the emerald hell to find it. They called the city El Dorado, the Gilded...
Percy Harrison Fawcett was the quintessential dashing late-Victorian explorer. Almost too late--he was born in 1867, when the world was starting to run low on terra incognita. Tall, steely and virtually indestructible, he spent much of his life mapping the Amazon basin. In 1925 he set out to find a legendary city he called Z, a glittering oasis of civilization supposedly sequestered deep in the jungle. Whereupon the jungle, having nibbled at him for decades, ate him alive...
...audiences not fascinated by loopholes in banking regulations, The International offers some thriller wrinkles. To prod his memory for a sharper image of Schumer's last moments, Salinger sticks his head in a basin of ice. (It works!) There's a pretty cool demonstration of "trajectory analysis," in which Salinger and Whitman determine the angle of an assassin's bullet by poking sticks through a perforated wall, and a Holmesian moment when Salinger, examining the impression a man's shoe has left in some dirt, says, "I've seen that print before...
...includes better performance and more fun. After all, who wants to motor around in the equivalent of all-wheel-drive bubble wrap? California, a vital auto market, discovered Subaru courtesy of models like the Impreza WRX. All-wheel drive is terrific in the Sierras, but in the Los Angeles Basin, it's more about performance, which the 265-hp, intercooled, turbocharged WRX could address. The muscle models scored well with younger drivers and allowed Subaru to get more exposure for its full line...