Word: diego
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This psychological intensity, combined with top-level coaching and seven months of unrelieved practice, comes to a head during racing season. Beginning this weekend, when the crew competes in the San Diego Classic regatta, all the emotion cascades in a series of six-minute races that seem to suspend time. The concentrated pre-race tension is just the beginning. "It's hell on the starting line," grimaces Doug Wood, "The idea of the agony you're going to go through for six minutes is enough to make you quit. And there's always the extra pressure of a Harvard tradition...
...DIEGO--The Padres, like the Cubs and Expos, could surprise...
...will learn to think of ourselves, our personalities, as an orchestra of chemical voices in our heads," predicts Arnold Mandell, professor of psychiatry at the University of California at San Diego. "Psychiatry will become the most scientifically precise of medical specialties, relying not at all on subjective judgment." Jack Barchas, professor of psychopharmacology at Stanford, thinks the current exploits of his field are on a par with Einstein's revolutionary formulation E = mc˛. Says he: "The discovery of the neuroregulators may prove as important to humanity as that equation. We are on the edge of a new era." Also...
...Diego 5, San Francisco...
...roller-skating in Venice, a funky, fashionable section of the city, where people like to walk around on wheels. He coasted into a phone booth to make a call, but was quickly surrounded by fans peeking through the glass. Said he: "I felt like I was in the San Diego...