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...there are those who harness horsepower, turn a key and roar across the waves. The naval battles between the two types have gone on for years, as sailboats topple in the wakes of motorboats. But this year the most visible -- and audible -- combatant promises to be one of the smallest and peskiest of them all: the "personal watercraft," better known by Kawasaki's trademark Jet Skis. "Everyone I know has had at least one close call," says board sailor Barbara Glunn in Miami. "And it usually happened when one guy tried to beat the antics of another...
...Some historians told me 200 million died. The smallest number I got from anybody was 60 million. There were travel accounts of people who were in the Congo -- that's a wide river -- saying, "We could not get the boat through the river, it was choked with bodies." That's like a logjam. A lot of people died. Half of them died in those ships...
...before Thursday's protest, there was every indication that the government was ready to crush even the smallest sprig of dissent. On Tuesday Premier Li Peng and President Yang Shangkun reportedly informed Deng that the movement had spread "to high schools, the countryside and even among the workers." Deng, whose sole official government title is Chairman of the Central Military Commission but whose ironhanded control of the government has led the students to dub him the "Emperor," agreed that the protesters intended to overthrow the Communist Party. Referring to the turmoil that has accompanied political reform elsewhere in the socialist...
Most Western experts, along with rueful Soviets, blame the country's industrial ministries for stifling initiative and innovation. "I used to have to go to the ministry with the smallest change in our work," says Boris Fomin, director of the Elektrosila plant. "They issued hundreds of instructions, which usually contradicted one another. There was no strategic guidance." While Gorbachev's industrial reform required enterprises to wean themselves from government subsidies by January 1989, the majority of Soviet factories still rely on Moscow for merchandise orders, supplies and financial support...
This year's winning margin of three seconds is the smallest one the lights have had in three years, having won previously by 11- and 13-second spreads. This disparity was largely a result of UBC, first-time competitors in the San Diego Crew Classic...