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WIMBLEDON: Boris Becker, who won his first Wimbledon championship in 1985 at the age of 17 and dominated the grass at the All England Club for a decade after, will not play there again. After losing to Pete Sampras in the quarterfinal Thursday, Becker said he was through. Although he won the event three times and finished second another four in the past 14 years, Becker felt that age 31 he could no longer play at a high enough level to win. "I feel very relieved," he said afterwards. "I feel I've come to the end of the road...
...laudable action, a more talk and the laudable action, a more troubling political issue seems to be transpiring. While the 5,000 rallyers listened to President Clinton, several thousand more people gathered at another rally a number of miles away--this one to protest. According to Brian Becker, a coordinator of the National People's Campaign that is sponsoring a counter-conference to the Summit, "the [President's] summit is all hoopla and propaganda." Becker and the thousands that joined him claim that the President's conference and the campaign for which it is a kick-off are a paltry...
Opening the discussion was Anne E. Becker, director of research and training for the center and assistant professor of medical anthropology at Harvard Medical School...
...Becker described "widespread cultural forces to be thin" in the U.S. and said that because Americans are becoming increasingly overweight, the ideal of thinness "is increasingly unattainable...
...Becker implicated the media in prizing thinness and creating what she termed the "normalization of an extreme." This has distorted "what is normal and what is attainable," she said...