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...Kark, who directed the study, "We don't know what process leads to sudden death," but he speculates that sickle-cell carriers may be unusually vulnerable to dehydration during prolonged exertion. Kark does not believe affected blacks need worry about participating in strenuous sports. They are less stressful than boot camp, he says, and probably pose little risk. He does recommend the Army begin routine screening for the trait: "It would only be fair to recruits...
...Harvard men's soccer team managed only a single second half shot against Columbia here Saturday, but that one shot--a boot from Ryan Chew off of a Ramy Rajballie corner kick--found the net and was enough to lead Harvard to a 3-2 victory in a crucial Ivy League match...
...political bite, as recorded in a piece from the late '60s (Patriot's Parade, Lyndon Johnson with a skull inside his hat and a flower- bearing demonstrator under his enormous cowboy boot), it is cliche and does not rank with Robert Crumb or Ralph Steadman, let alone Daumier. Twenty years later, even these small fangs are gone. His work gums its subjects, rolls on its back and waggles its paws in its demotic eagerness to be liked. If this is the Whitney's notion of satire, no wonder it shelved its plans for a Keinholz installation last year...
Designer Ishioka takes no pleasure in being noted as the first woman to have achieved all she has achieved. Says she: "I hated it, and I still hate it." She is not only a woman in a man's world, she is an assertive feminist to boot. Her advertising posters and TV ads for a chain of clothing shops feature an undressed woman and the aggressively quixotic slogan: DON'T STARE AT THE NUDE; BE NAKED...
...with other boot-camp graduates, many doctors feel, If I went through it, so can you. Some of the resistance to changing medical residencies reflects this macho sentiment. Established physicians remember their years of training as dramatic and character building. The fact is, however, that the typical experience of a medical resident has changed over the decades. Thirty years ago, physicians had less information to master and fewer tools at their disposal. Nights on call tended to be less punishing, if not enjoyable. New York Obstetrician Selig Neubardt, 61, remembers playing his guitar to while away his hours on call...