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...Alvarezes did not stop there. Basing their calculations on the atmospheric consequences of the explosion of Krakatoa, they roughly estimated how much dust the impact of the asteroid would have thrown into the atmosphere, how long sunlight would have been blocked from the earth's surface, and what kinds of life would have been the most gravely affected by the climatic changes. They decided that plants, totally dependent on the sun for photosynthesis, and a variety of marine organisms would have died first, followed by the land animals highest on the food chain, the dinosaurs. Eventually the iridium-enriched debris...
...reached an altitude of twelve miles, and the blast was heard hundreds of miles away. Those closest to the explosion, the townspeople of Vanavara, 40 miles away, felt a wave of intense heat; windows cracked, objects fell from walls, and one man sitting on his porch was thrown several yards and knocked unconscious. Trees were flattened and scorched over an area of several hundred square miles, their felled trunks all pointing away from the epicenter...
Starter Jeff Musselman has thrown a complete game no-hitter (Penn), two-hitter (Princeton) and three-hitter (Tufts) while holding opponents to two earned runs in 26 innings of Eastern baseball. His ERA is 3.00, because he yielded 10 earned runs in as many innings at the Riverside (Calif.) Baseball invitational in March...
...retire because that meant giving in to pitchers; Fred Lynn's ten consecutive home runs in batting practice mechanically placed clockwise across the outfield; Jim Rice's exhaustion as hardworking schoolboy ballplayer who also held down a job; coach's yell of "no, no" as "go, go" and being thrown out at the plate to kill a World Series rally, Yet once again they seem better suited to a newspaper column than to a book of this length...
...Uitenhage, acknowledged indirectly that the official explanation of the incident was wrong on at least three counts. Minister of Law and Order Louis LeGrange had contended that some of the 4,000 black marchers provoked the police gunfire. Fouche, however, admitted that the demonstrators had not, as claimed, thrown gasoline bombs at the police, had not surrounded the 19-man unit, and had not been led by a man wielding a brick. Soon afterward, Colonel Adolf Charlton Van Rooyen, chief of the South African riot police, testified that two days before the killings the police had been instructed to "eliminate...