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...speed," says French speedster Nicolas Bollon. Officially recognized by the International Ski Federation only in 1988, the sport has had an understandably hard time shaking its kamikaze reputation. Still, aficionados contend that it is reasonably sane and safe, at least relatively speaking. France's Michael Prufer, the world's fastest skier, blanches at the thought of pastimes like bungee jumping. "Too dangerous," he declares...
...Reagan-Bush coalition. Bush's broken pledge on taxes damages this coalition more than any other deviation from the conservative agenda. A second strike against Bush is the 10 percent average annual increase in budget expenditures that have occurred in each year of his administration. These increases represent the fastest rate of spending growth since the FDR years...
...Steph had a strong showing across the board," eighth-year year coach Maura Costin-Scalise said. "She definitely will have one of the top 10 fastest times in the country...
...fastest behind the counter, too," says Diane Jellis, a Harvard reunions official...
...fastest-growing spending program in the U.S., Medicaid will dispense $158 billion in federal and state funds this year to provide health care to 27.3 million Americans. Costs are careering out of control. Medicaid pays for half of all nursing-home patients -- or 250,000 Americans -- at an average annual cost of $34,000 a person. Medicaid also looks after the 158,000 severely impaired crack babies born every year ($1.8 billion a year), the 35,000 AIDS victims who have run out of money, the poor single mothers and pregnant teens, the hardest-pressed Americans...