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Before reporting to the Pirates, Kaat had occasion to serve as a counselor in one of those "fantasy camps" now in vogue, where big leaguers present and past drill middle-aged dreamers at perhaps $2,500 a head. "There was this woman playing second base, a 50-year-old woman," he says, "who kept getting bowled over by the runners and still kept coming up holding the ball. She was a gamer. The enthusiasm of those people-I'm not kidding, you had to drag them off the field. Well, it was inspiring." As the other Pirates start...
...this week's cover story on the troubles of the nuclear industry, has a rare firsthand knowledge of the subject, including some hands-on experience running a reactor. During simulated exercises in 1980 at a training center for technicians in Morris, Ill., Stoler recalls, "I undertook a routine drill to bring the reactor back on line. It was supposed to be gradual, but I brought it along too fast and overheated it. If it had been a real reactor, I'd have melted it down...
...finished writing her entry into the bulging exercise-book market. "This was the first time I was able to say something firsthand," explains Welch, who spent a year collaborating with Husband-Photographer Andre Weinfeld, 37, on Raquel's Health and Beauty Book. "We didn't want the drill-instructor look-I think the pictures should be inspirational." Indeed. This is one time when the medium should be every bit as attractive as the message...
...McKinney hardly cuts the blocky figure of a woman skier. Actually, the entire women's team appears less robust than its regimen. At various boot camps from Hawaii to New Zealand, karate and pro football have been mixed into the exercises (Green Bay Packer Del Rodgers was a drill instructor). With the exception of three-time Olympian Cindy Nelson, a bronze-medal winner in 1976, they are extraordinarily fit. Nelson crashed a gate at Val d'Isere, France, last month and tore the ligaments in a knee. She returned to the U.S. immediately and has been working furiously...
...waters since the Santa Barbara accident, and the technology for plugging an out-of-control well has vastly improved, environmentalists are worried that chronic, low-level oil pollution could be devastating to such rich fishing grounds as the Georges Bank off New England. They also fear that drill rigs off Alaska, a site of suspected major reserves, could be wrecked by errant ice floes, spreading crude oil over the fragile Arctic terrain...