(09-13) 12:42 PDT -- Time is running out on Oracle Team USA. The
America's Cup could belong to New Zealand by Sunday. If so, the
U.S. team will look back ruefully on the upwind leg of the
racecourse.  It's their Bermuda Triangle.  Their hopes fly in
and don't fly out.  The Kiwis have such a strong advantage in
that third leg of the five, all they need is a stalemate in the
rest of the race.  Form held true Thursday when they swept Races
6 and 7 in impressive fashion. With a 6-to-minus-1 lead, they
could lose the next six races and still be ahead. That won't
happen, of course. They need only three more wins.  "Imagine if
these guys lost from here - they've almost got it in the bag,"
Oracle skipper Jimmy Spithill said, redefining the term "wishful
thinking." "That's my motivation. That would be one hell of a
story. That would be one hell of a comeback."  During a near-
post-mortem of a news conference, Spithill creatively came up
with several ways to say his team won't surrender.  "We're not
going to give up," h