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...walked 303 miles (488 km) in a six-day race--and that was the least of his feats. In 1959 Ted Corbitt, dubbed the "father of American distance running," introduced Americans to the "ultramarathon"--a race that is longer, often significantly so, than the traditional 26 miles (42 km)--with a 30-mile (48 km) event in New York. The co-founder of the Road Runners Club of America, he trained by running 200 miles (320 km) a week and won 30 of his 199 events. The secret? "[You] have to be very strange," he said. "You don't have...
...make mulch, the soil stabilizer found in many gardens. Removing these trees could aggravate the impact of the next big storm. "People who garden should be disturbed that critical forests are being shredded just to end up in their flower beds," says Sierra Club's Orli Cotel. Chuck Corbitt, CEO of Corbitt Manufacturing, a top mulch supplier, told TIME that some of his mulch--including bags labeled FLORIDAGOLD--comes from Louisiana cypress but denied that it originates in endangered coastal forests. A Home Depot spokesman says the retailer is re-evaluating Corbitt. Wal-Mart is investigating consumer concerns...
...much to unify our party.” Student reactions to the speech were generally positive, though there were a few sharp questions during the question and answer session. “I thought she did a great job laying out the agenda,” Caroline C. Corbitt ’09 said. “[She also] did a good job responding to the questions, particularly to those [pointed] questions that were entirely irrelevant to the rest of her speech.” Earlier in the day, Pelosi spoke to a group of women from...
Douglas D. Corbitt Conway, Arkansas AOL: DCorbitt...
...reasserts itself, and the men turn to discussions of safe sex. Huestis' documentary does not shy away from portraying some of the extremes of sexual expression among gays. Sadomasochism is treated the same as monogamy or celibacy. For Huestis, all are equally valid options that gay men have today. Corbitt, for example, speaks about refusing to have either the gay or the Black communities tell him how to live his life. He denies any political significance to his being whipped by a white South African, stating that his penis has a mind...