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Recently, while visiting a community center in a Welsh town that is wilting under high unemployment, Charles was inspecting some art pinned to the wall when he was asked by teacher Andrew Herbert to draw something. The accomplished amateur painter obliged immediately, dashing off a witty sketch of Jason Rossington, 14, complete with mop of peroxided hair. Explaining later how he summoned the nerve to thrust felt-tip pen and paper in front of the heir to the throne, Herbert said it took no nerve at all: "You feel relaxed with him, as though you've known...
...Tour de France [MEDICINE, Aug. 10], creatine is not a drug, and its use is not illegal. It is a nutritional supplement that is available over the counter at almost every nutrition store. Pfanstiehl Laboratories has been manufacturing synthetic high-purity creatine since 1961. We know of no amateur or professional sport in which the use of creatine is banned. Athletes use synthetic creatine to supplement their bodies' natural production of it, increase strength and extend their peak performance. GEORGE HOLSTEIN, President Pfanstiehl Laboratories Inc. Waukegan...
...terribly surprised. Performance-boosting drugs, once considered the specialty of shady East-bloc coaches, are becoming as common as Gatorade. Even as the Tour de France was sputtering along last week, two U.S. athletes, Olympic gold-medal shotputter Randy Barnes and sprinter Dennis Mitchell, were suspended by the International Amateur Athletic Federation on suspicion of "doping...
...called up Big Al's one day and made an appointment to talk to the managers and visit the club. One week later, accompanied by three male reporters from my newspaper, I ventured into the club, cringing as I walked by a sign advertising that night's amateur contest...
They make a strange menagerie, the Hal Hartley clan. The people in his odd, alert comedies (Trust, Amateur, Flirt) inhabit some Long Island of the mind, where Amy Fisher-style melodrama rubs up against working-class angst. They are part strong, silent types, part East Coast neurotics. They revel in their own contradictions; one Hartley heroine, a nymphomaniac virgin, explains the anomaly by saying, "I'm choosy." His creatures will sit mute and mopey, then turn endlessly articulate once they get going. Self-conscious but not self-aware, skeptical yet wildly romantic, they have a horror of the personal commitment...