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When Kate and Alison Wiley run in the Canadian trials for the annual World Cross Country Championships this Sunday, it will be only the latest and most intense contest in a long history of athletic rivalry...
...hard competing, but we're used to it," says Kate, who has been running against her sister since the two took up cross country three years ago in Ontario. "There was some rivalry in the beginning, but now we accept that we're competitors just like anybody else. Alison is someone else who has to be beaten...
...SISTFR ALISON is in Africa now. About two months ago she and other Peuce Corps volunteers left their training camp in Frogmore, South Carolina, for Mauntania, a barrenarid nation the size of Alaska, just south of Morocco. I am in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is 3 a.m. An autumn chill has penetrated the walls and filled my room, so i must wear a jacket as I type, My sister is so faraway, on the other side of the world, that I imagine is afternoon there right now, I'm not sure what season it is in Mauritania...
...high school Alison was a champion figure skater. In Mauritania there is no ice. In fact, there is very little but sand, She was told by the people who assigned her to that country that 70 percent of Mauritania bound volunteers quit in their first year. The natives are starving, disease runs rampant, and water is searce. Foliage in Mauritania is gradually disappearing under sand dunes, which are creeping across the country at a rate of several thousand feof each year. It seems strange to me that our own New England sun, which turns the fall sky ice blue, sparkles...
...South residents nominated were Alison Bennie '84, Steve Black '84, Philip Gardner '85, Gail Latoul '84, Peter Nanula '84, Judy Saxe '84, Tom Schuler '84, Greg Stem '83, Kate Tews '85 and Catherine Thomas...