Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...swim season. A full year's worth of grueling workouts, endless time trials and exposure to unhealthy amounts of chlorine are all put on the line in one weekend, or even one race. The swimmer tapers his training schedule, shaves off his body hair, and sticks to a special diet so that he is in peak condition for this single meet...
After a remarkable reign, Muhammad Ali stands whole?old and young, winner and loser?for assessment. Was he really, as he proclaimed from the earliest days, the greatest? Comparing fighters of different eras is a risky enterprise, flawed by changes in boxing rules, training methods, improved diet and medical care. Then there are those shifting subjectives: the accuracy of recollection and loyalty to generations. One expert favors Joe Louis, another Jack Dempsey, voting for the knockout punch that Ali admittedly never had. Rocky Marciano was inelegant, but he could hit and he never lost a fight...
Scattered around the U.S. are scores of biomedical research facilities that use rhesuses for testing the effects of diet, drugs and other chemicals in relation to a wide variety of human diseases, notably cardiovascular disorders and cancer. Two important studies involve examination of the rhesus fetus while it is still in the womb, letting the pregnancy continue and checking hemoglobin changes that occur about the time of birth, which may be significant in relation to sickle-cell anemia...
...curse, usually at the two-minute intervals during which, normally, passes would be dropped, quarterbacks sacked, or egregiously erroneous calls made by officials. Milder side effects include the opening of phantom beer cans and hurriedly placed phone calls to bookies for a nonexistent point spread. After a six-month diet of football, the American public must shake a national habit, and the transition is not easy. In the home of the Super Bowl Champion Dallas Cowboys, for example, police report more than twice the daily average of violent assaults on the Sunday after the football season ends. Spats between spouses...
...halting destruction of wetlands, banning offshore dumping, regulating shoreline development. But, she warns, even these are not enough. "The record of our action allows some hopes that there may still be flocks of birds flying low over the shore in the 21st century, some hopes for seafood in our diet," writes Mrs. Simon. "But not many." Hers is a tocsin that cannot be sounded often enough...