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California's Disneyland has just opened Splash Mountain, which may be the most high-tech, high-thrill, fastest, longest, tallest log-flume ride in the world. Two thousand passengers an hour can shriek through the swirling path down the watery mountain, at speeds of up to 40 m.p.h. Serenading them along the way are Br'er Rabbit, Br'er Bear and other characters from Disney's 1946 partly animated film Song of the South. Since Splash Mountain opened July 18, visitors have typically waited an hour and a half for the 10-min. ride...
...nearly 500,000 anglers who make it one of the U.S.'s fastest-growing sports, casting for trout in unspoiled waters is more than a skill or a discipline. It is a religion...
...fishermen scoff that snobs use flies as an excuse to keep worm and minnow goo off their hands, fly-fishermen approach the sport with an almost mystical reverence. Perhaps that's because learning to catch trout is a complex process bordering on religion. Yet it is one of the fastest-growing sports in the U.S., now embraced by nearly 500,000 fisherpeople...
Sports betting is not even the largest or fastest-growing type of gambling. Christiansen/Cummings Associates in New York City, a leading consulting firm to the gaming industry, figures that all kinds of wagering (except friendly bets between individuals) have increased a thumping 57% in the past five years. Casinos took in more than half of all bets, or $164 billion; sports gambling was a distant second with a $28 billion take, up 57% from 1983. Though impressive, that increase was dwarfed by a 98% jump in the coins clinked into slot machines, a 103% rise in legal bookmaking...
...fastest riser on record," says Ron Moore, an astronomer at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. So fast, in fact, that astronomers are betting on 1990 or perhaps even later this year, instead of 1991, as the beginning of the maximum. And what a maximum it could be. Despite the ferocity of the March flares, Moore warns, "this cycle is still in its early phase. It's got quite a way to go." Solar buffs are speculating it might approach the violence reached by the 1957-58 maximum, which touched off five disruptive geomagnetic superstorms and vivid...