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...charged Baffert with finding him a Derby runner, and the two hoped their hunch would pay off. Did it ever. War Emblem won the Derby in style, going off as a 20-to-1 shot and leading wire to wire. Two weeks later, in the Preakness, the "speed" horses were supposed to drain War Emblem like a cheap battery. He won going away. "Baffert and the Prince were able to see that they could move [War Emblem] up in class," says Tom Hammond, a racing expert...
Controlled fury will be the key to Belmont, at a mile and a half the longest of the Triple Crown races by an eighth of a mile. Once again the speed horses such as Sunday Break and Perfect Drift will be gunning for War Emblem, hoping to grind him down. Bring it on, says Baffert. "Nothing that goes with him up front will be around...
What, you may ask, is Olympic speed skater APOLO OHNO doing hanging out with THE CLINTONS? And why is he wearing his gold medals at the beach? Reasonable questions, and ones for which there are in fact answers. For its July issue, W magazine brought Ohno to the Dominican Republic where, serendipitously, the Clintons and Chelsea's boyfriend IAN KLAUS happened to be on vacation. When W asked them to pose together, the Clintons eagerly agreed. "They were in awe of Apolo, treating him like a celebrity," says W fashion director Joe Zee. In return, Ohno apparently made no snide...
Kurzweil shares some of Joy's concerns but takes a more optimistic view of technology and man's ability to control it. Some critics challenge Kurzweil's claim that software advances can keep up with such trends as rising processor speed, or that the brain is not too complex to reverse-engineer. And pragmatists might see many predictions--not just Kurzweil's--as divorced from larger social issues. What good are eye computers when we aren't sure where much of the world's freshwater will come from? In his next book, The Singularity Is Near, coming in early...
...ancient city is not only a place of pilgrimage but an auspicious place to die. The elderly and the sick arrive from across India to pass their final days praying at the river, in ashrams or on the street, knowing that dying on the banks of the Ganges will speed them through the cycle of rebirths to moksha, or liberation of the soul. Those who don't die in Varanasi desire to be cremated there, or have their ashes scattered in the river...