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...John S. Crawford, 36, spends weeks at a time as a wildlife photographer in the remote reaches of Alaska, Canada and the Pacific Northwest. He has suffered eleven bone frac tures, and frostbitten toes are a commonplace. Once, when stranded for eight days at the tip of the Alaskan peninsula, he survived by fishing safely while a grizzly bear pack lurked near by. He rarely carries a rifle. "A rifle," he says, "is a crutch. If you've got one, there are likely to be times when you break down and use it. If you just say, 'Hell...
...Achievement. In the main, bone-crushing defense has been the key to Michigan State's success. "Football is not a contact sport," Daugherty tells his players. "It is a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport." In their collision with Ohio State last month, the Spartans held the Buckeyes to minus-22 yds. rushing-the first time they have ever failed to gain on the ground. Michigan, the defending Big Ten champion, got even less: minus-51 yds. Last week the Spartans allowed Iowa a grand total of 86 yds., 85 of them in the air, never...
Boston University Astronomy Professor Gerald Hawkins has a bone to pick with historians who list the seven wonders of the ancient world. It is not that they have picked the wrong wonders, only that their list is too short. Britain's Stonehenge, says the British-born scientist, is the eighth wonder-a remarkable achievement of primitive man. In a new book, Stonehenge Decoded (Doubleday; $5.95), he explains how he turned to a modern computer to unravel the 3,500-year-old mystery of Salisbury Plain. Stonehenge's long-kept secret, says Hawkins, is that its vast stone slabs...
Willie is mad, and in this eerily brilliant little novel the reader is invited to dive down and down into the lurid whirlpool of his aberration and there circle with the weird debris of Willie until he knows in every bone of his being how it feels to be insane...
Steve Diamond, thought lost for the season with a broken bone in his wrist, has been given clearance to return to the football team after x-rays on Monday revealed that the bone wasn't broken after...