Standing thigh-deep in a roaring creek, Donnie Mitts wrestles a water-soaked plank. Before last night's downpour, the board served as a bridge over the stream. Today, Mitts fights the powerful current to muscle it back into place. From the creek bank, a cluster of onlookers watches nervously. If he loses his footing, the rushing water will sweep him over a waterfall just a few feet downstream -- leaving the group stranded in the forest without a guide.
An enormous amoeba-like structure 200 million light-years wide and made up of galaxies and large bubbles of gas is the largest known object in the universe, scientists say.
The concept of 72 holes in 72 hours is simple: Cram four rounds of golf at four different U.S. courses into a three-day weekend.
Fortune: Sky Boxupdated: Mon Oct 09 2000 00:01:00
The Mauna Kea telescopes are located in one of the world's most remote locations--14,000 feet above sea level, atop a dormant volcano on the big island of Hawaii. That gives them one of the cleares...
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