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...Midway takes on the majors
After taking a telephone call from a well-wisher at the Le Mans race track, he could have said, "That was Mother." But it would not have had quite the same cachet, so Mark Thatcher, 26, announced, "That was the Prime Minister." Midway into the grueling 24-hr, sports car race, young Thatcher, positioned 30th in a field of 34, suffered what he later called "a momentary lapse of concentration" while negotiating an S bend at 80 m.p.h. His Osella skittered crabwise across the track, bumped to a stop against a safety barrier and refused to start. Thatcher, who made...
...there may be a safe and acceptable nuclear depot in the heavens. Three space engineers writing in the journal Astronautics & Aeronautics suggest parking the dangerous debris in an orbit far from any living thing, midway between the earth's own path around the sun and that of the neighboring planet Venus. Left there, say Claude Priest and Robert Nixon of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and Eric Rice of the Battelle Laboratories in Columbus, it would never come closer to the earth than 22.5 million km (14 million miles). The scheme would also be cheaper than sending...
Following that, however, Luke, like any other such hero, enters what Dante called the dark wood midway in the journey of our life. He must go into it alone and alone face the evils that there reside, the dark forces that are within himself. Yoda knows that, and he tells Luke to leave behind his lightsword when he steps into the tree cave in the Dagobah swamp. Luke refuses and in a dream-like sequence soon finds himself using it against what seems to be the figure of Darth Vader, whom he decapitates. Vader's mask breaks away...
...orange plague responded with three goals to tie the game at six. Then, with only 30 seconds left on the clock, Mleczko took the ball and charged the Tiger net, only to be met midway by a Princeton stick...