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DIED. LORE NOTO, 79, theater producer who discovered, acted in and tirelessly promoted The Fantasticks, the sweetly simple love story that became the world's longest-running musical; of cancer; in New York City...
...DIED. COLONEL FLOYD JAMES THOMPSON, 69, the longest-held American prisoner of war in Vietnam, who was captive from 1964 to 1973; in Key West, Florida. Imprisoned in the notorious Hanoi Hilton, Thompson was beaten with bamboo sticks, suspended by his thumbs and escaped five times, only to be recaptured. He was held for 3,278 days...
...mankind clings precariously to the surface, the albatross owns the air above the sea. In the mid-1990s, when scientists first started tagging albatrosses for tracking via satellite, they discovered something astonishing: albatrosses spend 95% of their lives over the ocean, and most of that flying. Albatrosses have the longest wingspan on earth, and they can stay aloft continuously for years, dozing on the wing. In Eye of the Albatross: Visions of Hope and Survival--ignore the sappy subtitle--Carl Safina follows a single bird as it roams the globe gathering food for its chick (be warned: this book contains...
...made it to the round of 16 and seems to be supplanting Kournikova in the hearts, minds and lustful dreams of tennis fans. Proving more impressive to commentators than her baseline game are Hantuchova's 44-in. legs, which, as the foaming British tabloids have repeatedly noted, are the longest in the women's game. Fleet Street turned on Kournikova after she snubbed a BBC reporter, following which several newspapers ran the same MOVE OVER ANNA headline. Hantuchova, who won a major tournament at Indian Wells, Calif., earlier this year, proved she's a fierce competitor when she commented...
...blank while contorting like pretzels. It is the fourth inning of a recent game against the Oakland Athletics. Lefthander Barry Zito, winner of nine straight games, is on the mound for the A's. As he prepares to step in, Ichiro betrays no awareness that he's enduring his longest drought?0 for 13?of the season. No, as always, Ichiro spends his time running through at least six different stretches. "Same thing every time," says Mariners outfielder Charles Gipson. "He never gets out of the zone...