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...fitting that the new multi-million dollar facility be dedicated to racquet competition. Squash and tennis can and should remain the sports of the new Harvard. They are fun and clean, doable in an hour, good cardiovascular exercise and intensely competitive. Hopefully the new Harvard Racquet facility will be devoted as much to the intramural and non-league players as to the varsity and junior varsity teams. In that way, old and new Harvard can come together in the athletics of a new century...
Enter challenger Michael Weiss, 21, who's been beefing up his rebel routine. He pumps iron with his father Greg, a former Olympic gymnast, for an hour every day in addition to half an hour of cardiovascular training, 45 minutes of stretching and four hours of skating. "Not being one of the favorites, it'll be important for me [at Nagano] to have something extra," he says candidly. That something extra is the elusive quad, the Holy Grail of men's competition--four revolutions and a one-foot landing. No American man has ever managed to nail one in competition...
...alarmed at the monster that Johns Hopkins neuroscientist Solomon Snyder and I created when we discovered the simple binding assay for drug receptors 25 years ago. Prozac and other antidepressant serotonin-receptor-active compounds may also cause cardiovascular problems in some susceptible people after long-term use, which has become common practice despite the lack of safety studies...
CLIMATE COUNTS The thermostat may help your heart as much as a StairMaster does. A study credits heating and air conditioning with a drop in fatal heart attacks in the U.S. Extreme temperatures can put undue stress on the cardiovascular system...
...Carson also discovered that the risk of complications or death was higher in people with heart disease. "In some circumstances," he says, "blood is lifesaving. When people get very low blood levels, their risk of running into trouble is substantial, and if you're old or have cardiovascular disease, that risk may be even greater. So I recommend caution...