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With sparkles in her hair and glimmering flashes of what was — quite perfectly — as much cocktail dress as tennis outfit, Serena Williams was serving for the set but down at deuce. The US Open crowd was amped but nervous. Serena was a 23-time major champion. Her opponent, Danka Kovinic, was a 27-year-old who had never been past the third round in a major. Back in the day, this would have taken about 53 minutes. Serena is 40 now, though, mother to a 4-year-old daughter. She’s been… Source link

The developers noted the outlines of mountains and mountain ranges in Russia and around the world – the Alps and Cordillera, the volcanoes of Kamchatka and the cuestas of the Crimean Peninsula, the Khibiny and the Caucasus, and much more.  For this, the NASADEM open digital terrain model was used. It is based on data on the roughness of the earth’s surface from various sources: topographic radar imagery, satellite photos, and measurements of the thickness of the ice cover. As noted by… Source link

The black Ford Ranger rumbled through Northeast Ohio back in the summer of 1999. Matt Campbell doesn’t remember the truck’s year, but its real-life value as a hand-me-down from his grandfather (“the greatest gift”) transcended the Blue Book value ($3,000). Driving home from a week of workouts following an underwhelming freshman season on the football team at the University of Pittsburgh, Campbell’s truck pulled up to an intersection in Alliance, Ohio. There on State Street, he came… Source link