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...some point during this packed sports February, between the passing of Dale Earnhardt and the XFL's fifteen minutes of fame, between the Mutombo trade and the return of pitchers and catchers, Sergei Bubka quietly retired...
...prevention. Some try to help readers communicate better with doctors; others try to help readers avoid doctors altogether. Demystifying the latest scientific studies is still a staple, but newsletters increasingly help sort fact from rumor, especially in alternative health. "It's a really wonderful time to be involved," says Dale Ogar, managing editor of the University of California, Berkeley, Wellness Letter, "because so much is changing...
...this was Dale Earnhardt, whose life was racing, and like the cliché goes, he knew the risks. His wife and family knew the risks. Dale Jr. knew the risks, risks that basketball, baseball or even football would not tolerate. There is something undeniably noble about this superstar's exit, a racer dying in the thick of the thing he loved. A soldier carried out on his shield at the Daytona...
...Dale Earnhardt is dead; that is not the way we are used to having a sports superstar depart the field. Sadly, race fans are more used to death than those of other pastimes. NASCAR officials maintain that safety will always be a top priority. But whether you tune in for the competition or the crashes - look deep in your heart before answering - danger is part and parcel of the thrill. When a sport's competitors strap themselves into two-ton steel thoroughbreds and take off around the crowded oval at nearly 200 miles an hour, death will always hover above...
...Everyone's best guess is that Dale Earnhardt, particularly - who parlayed an eighth-grade education into a multimillion-dollar empire, just by being the best at the thing he loved - would have wanted it that...