Word: daytona
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After retiring in 1985 to Daytona Beach, Fla., he focused his attention again on sports, concentrating first on the long jump and the high jump. His arm remained as strong as his legs. "I can still throw a softball 35 yds.," he says. So five years ago, he decided to test his arm with the javelin. "I was terrible," he says. "Accurate, but no length." He trained for jumping at a local high school, but for understandable liability reasons, the school did not offer javelin instruction. So Duckman watched videotapes of the best javelin throwers in the world and slowed...
...construction was strong enough to avoid total destruction by a hurricane, occupants would need to get off the islands in advance of a major storm. And though four-lane causeways are being built to replace the two-lane drawbridges connecting beach to mainland, it is hardly enough. In Daytona Beach, Fla., where Floyd's near miss still did serious property damage, many people ignored evacuation calls. "Why leave?" says beach resident Jim Samuels. "You can't get to Orlando from here even when there's a good basketball game...
...Daytona 500 earlier this year, the entire field tried to gang-tackle him, deliberately closing off the passing lane, so to speak. But near the end of the race, Gordon sensed his moment and pulled a spectacular stunt, diving down off a banked turn to the apron of the track to limbo around two other cars. He won with Dale Earnhardt as close to his bumper as a license plate. Gordon says he drives without fear and that there is a point in every race when "desire overrides everything, and if you really want it badly, special things happen...
...often do you hear about a white guy involved with drugs or something like Darryl Strawberry?" the landscaper goes on. O.K., we won't remind him about the Packers' Brett Favre--the celebrity starter for the Daytona 500 who had to beat a prescription-drug addiction before he beat the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl...
Three counties' worth of Floridians were ordered out of their homes last week: 70,000 people fleeing inland along hurricane evacuation routes from flames that have eaten away at the state since Memorial Day. The Pepsi 400 NASCAR race in Daytona Beach was canceled because of low visibility. The fires got within 50 miles of the Magic Kingdom, but Disney World was out of danger at week's end. More than 320,000 acres have burned since May 25. Last week the fires forced the closure of some 200 miles of I-95, Florida's main artery...