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...NOTEBOOK: Seat racing for the crew began at the beginning of break and concluded last Thursday with just three practices before the Northeastern race. The crews continue seat racing this week as Heavyweight Coach Liz O'Leary searches for the fastest boat...
Tougher question: What is the fastest-rising car company in Europe, a manufacturer whose product line is so sophisticated, so sensitive to shifts in market demand, that it has outperformed all its rivals in the past year...
...Princeton, N.J. ($2.6 billion); Philadelphia's SmithKline Beckman ($3 billion) merged with Britain's Beecham ($3 billion); Merrell Dow ($1.3 billion) of Midland, Mich., merged with Marion Labs ($752 million) of Kansas City. "Pharmaceuticals is the one industry in which the U.S. firms are the biggest and growing the fastest," says Jay Silverman, a health-care analyst at the Nomura Research Institute in New York City...
Stair climbing is the fastest-growing form of aerobic exercise in the U.S., according to American Sports Data. An estimated 4 million people, from young professionals to energetic grandparents, have joined the climbing generation, an increase of more than 40% since the end of 1988. In many health clubs, stair-climbing machines are more popular than stationary bicycles, and they threaten to make treadmills a thing of the past...
...mental acuity that comes with aging. Asks Dr. Leonard Kurland of the Mayo Clinic: "Where do you draw the line and say this is normal and this is not?" Nonetheless, one implication of the study is very clear -- and frightening: since people 85 or older make up the fastest-growing segment of the population, Alzheimer's could have devastating consequences for the country's already strained health-care system...