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...this year, don't just expect a repeat performance of the last half-decade--expect the team to cover some new ground, er, water as well. This year's team (8-1, 6-1 Ivy) is primed to set as many as six school records at the championship at Army this weekend, in addition to the three records already broken during dual-meet competition...
...service, before those users float away like partygoers when the beer runs out. The deadbeats and moochers, of course, will leave anyway, and there are plenty of alternatives (albeit not so user-friendly) out there. But a sizable portion of those 64 million really read Playboy for the articles - er, use Napster for the selection and convenience - and will stick around because deep down, they'll feel better if they kick in a few bucks for the privilege of access to the world's largest record store...
...FILL 'ER UP Do you feel unusually short of breath during exercise? It's a classic symptom of congestive heart failure, but you may have a form of the disease doctors barely understand. For years, heart failure was thought to have been caused by the heart's inability to pump blood efficiently. Now a study shows that half of all patients may have a different defect altogether: their hearts don't properly fill up with blood. Doctors still don't know how best to treat the problem, but they do know who is most likely to develop it: hypertensive women...
...Before Eminem came on to rap with Elton John, a grave man dressed like an adult - the Grammys' ambassador to Bennett-Leiberman Nation - delivered a dishonest sermonette filled with those "sure-it's-ugly-but-we-ignore-the-cry-of-the-ghetto (er, make that, of suburban white sociopaths)-at-our-peril" notes that are spoken to endow venality with social significance...
...back to say he regrets the, er, "unfortunate phraseology, which in retrospect I should have done differently." Greenspan assured the U.S. Senate last week he really does think the economy is turning, if maybe not so fast as the markets seem to think. And that sounds about right - as long as you keep the emphasis on the not so fast...