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...nearly 500,000 anglers who make it one of the U.S.'s fastest-growing sports, casting for trout in unspoiled waters is more than a skill or a discipline. It is a religion...
Sports betting is not even the largest or fastest-growing type of gambling. Christiansen/Cummings Associates in New York City, a leading consulting firm to the gaming industry, figures that all kinds of wagering (except friendly bets between individuals) have increased a thumping 57% in the past five years. Casinos took in more than half of all bets, or $164 billion; sports gambling was a distant second with a $28 billion take, up 57% from 1983. Though impressive, that increase was dwarfed by a 98% jump in the coins clinked into slot machines, a 103% rise in legal bookmaking...
...fastest riser on record," says Ron Moore, an astronomer at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. So fast, in fact, that astronomers are betting on 1990 or perhaps even later this year, instead of 1991, as the beginning of the maximum. And what a maximum it could be. Despite the ferocity of the March flares, Moore warns, "this cycle is still in its early phase. It's got quite a way to go." Solar buffs are speculating it might approach the violence reached by the 1957-58 maximum, which touched off five disruptive geomagnetic superstorms and vivid...
...oldest intercollegiate rivalry, the Crimson surged to a commanding lead in the first 200 meters on the Thames River in New London, Conn. Harvard consistently pulled away from the outmanned Elis, crossing the finish line 10 lengths ahead of its opponents in a time of 19:15.3, the third-fastest time in the history of the race. The win marked Parker's 23rd win over Yale in his 27 years as coach of the Crimson crew program...
...time when money is desperately needed for crumbling roads and declining schools, the fastest-growing sector of state spending is prison construction. Legislatures across the country are considering outlays of $10 billion over the next six years. In 1983 Texas spent $288 million on prison construction and operation. By last year the figure was $500 million. Yet the system is still so crowded that Texas has already closed its prison doors to new inmates six times this year. "Corrections used to be a trivial amount of a state's budget," says Barry Krisberg, president of the National Council on Crime...