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...bumping behind them. A half-stride ahead on the outside at the 1600-meter mark and in tight quarters with Decker, Zola was knocked first abobble and then akimbo (see box). Decker, meanwhile, could not have been flipped so unexpectedly if someone in the infield had stuck out a cane. Budd's left leg had angled out so oddly that she could not have done it voluntarily, much less intentionally. Bleeding from a spike hole in her left ankle, where Decker's foot had hit her, cowering from the booing, Budd dropped back to seventh...
...setting is the fictitious country Cuyama, "a tract of land perched uneasily on the sloping shoulder of South America, a degree or two north of the Equator." Aubrey St. Pierre, whose once illustrious family grew wealthy with the aid of sugar-cane plantations and slave labor, harbors guilt and runs a bookstore; the Cuyamese citizens, whose culture he hopes to elevate, stay away in droves. Aubrey's wife Dina broods on her mixed Hindustani and Portuguese origins and roundly hates her native grounds: "Nothing worthwhile had ever been created on this sterile patch of earth perched on the edge...
...telephone, maintain large collections of public -domain pro grams. In addition, hundreds of individual computer enthusiasts and clubs have made free programs available on electronic bulletin boards that are reachable by telephone. Several books now tell computer owners where to find the freebies. The Computer Phone Book, by Mike Cane (New American Library; $9.95), lists the phone numbers of more than 400 bulletin boards and networks carrying programs for many brands of personal computers, including Apple, IBM, Tandy, Commodore and Atari. Free Software for the IBM PC, by Bertram Gader and Manuel Nodar (Warner Books; $8.95), shows readers...
...less buttoned down. San Francisco's mild but flighty climate must nurture eccentrics. In 1849, the city's commissioner of deeds resigned to become a singer-songwriter. Some years later, a circus geek called Oofty Goofty became a sidewalk S-M entrepreneur: he let passers-by cane him for a quarter or hit him with a baseball bat for four bits. When another local loon, the self-appointed Norton I, Emperor of North America and Protector of Mexico, died in 1880, 30,000 people (out of a population of 234,000) went to the funeral. A century later...
...uses an aluminum wrist cane to walk across the expansive living room of his Mercer Island, Wash., home. He walks surprisingly quickly, despite the ar thritis and 22 operations that have left his left leg 1 Yi in. shorter than his right. He cannot stand for more than seven minutes at a time without great pain. Says...