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...people were riding bikes it would help the world," says Sowers. "It would help environmentally, politically, the list goes on--and there's no question that the bike is the fastest way to get around in the city...
...opulent London office on March 14, 1990, could have signaled a routine meeting of bank directors and officers. The occasion turned out instead to be the darkest day in the high-flying private bank's 18-year history. Key officials received the startling news that the world's fastest-growing international bank, no longer headed by its financial genius founder, was in deep trouble. Hundreds of millions of dollars was missing from its capital accounts, and hundreds of millions more consisted of loans granted to insiders to buy stock in Agha Hasan Abedi's banks. Such loans were never meant...
...captain Greg Tull is now the fastest freestyle sprinter in Harvard history at 20.48 in the 50-yd. and 44.74 in the 100-yd freestyle. Still, Tull's times at these distances weren't the quickest of the day. Ty Nelson of Princeton edged Tull in the 50 by 12 seconds and Harvard's Ed Wagner swam a blistering 44.56 in the anchor leg of the 400-yd. medley relay...
...burst out of the blocks for a commanding lead on the first leg but Princeton's stars, Nelson Diebel and Ty Nelson, overtook the Crimson in the next two legs of the breaststroke and the butterfly. Harvard's Wagner tried to pull it out for the Crimson with the fastest anchor leg of the event, but the Harvard team fell short by nearly half a second...
Combative hostility toward competing faiths characterizes Brazil's fastest- growing Pentecostal group, the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God. Its authoritarian bishop, Edir Macedo de Bezerra, 45, began preaching in 1977 to a dozen curiosity seekers in a rented room above a funeral parlor; today his flock is 2 million strong. The movement filled a 150,000-seat Rio stadium twice last year, opens one new church a week, and has added a $45 million Sao Paulo TV channel to its 14 radio stations...