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...catapulted the same record forward by a nearly unfathomable 14.75%. Here is what a 14.75% improvement over some other well-known marks would yield: Someone would drive in 218 runs. The mile record would be 3:11.29. Even so hyperthyroid a measure as the Dow Jones industrial average would leap ahead to the vicinity of 10,100. In a sport whose progress is characteristically Darwinian in both style and speed, McGwire not only collapsed the decades, he invented a new algebra...
...Harpers Ferry, W. Va., a visionary or a madman? Russell Banks frames this question in fictional form, a furious, sprawling drama narrated by Brown's real-life son Owen. The result is a historical novel that is not simply a period piece or a pedantic tract but an imaginative leap...
During her middle school days in Glover, Vt., she always loved traveling to arch-rival Barton's larger facility, a giant leap up from Glover's tiny gym, a converted town hall...
...depending not solely on science or on faith but on a combination of the two. He isn't more powerful than a locomotive or able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, yet he is fighting a noble struggle against this neurological version of kryptonite. Superman would be proud...
...macaroni on the floor, in millions of bits, none of it drying worth a damn. The Chief was called in. The Chief arrived. Long trip, cleanup at the hotel, dinner, back to the macaroni factory. All night long, The Chief paced, The Chief thought, The Chief would suddenly leap up and march off down the corridor. By dawn The Chief had a plan: he started with a 48-hour drying time and continued to shorten it until it reached the minimum at which macaroni dried satisfactorily. "We ruined a lot of macaroni," reported one of his associates...