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Generally regarded as one of the world's fastest and finest tracks because of its unique design, Harvard's newest athletic facility has the ability to increase runner's speeds by about three percent. Experts also say the 400-meter, eight-lane track, located behind the Stadium, reduces fatigue and decreases the chance for injury...

Author: By Christopher J. Georges, | Title: Bubbling over | 6/7/1984 | See Source »

...using the same concept as the outdoor track. But because it is housed in the Gordon Indoor Track and Tennis Building, where the temperature remains relatively stable, it has not experienced the same problems with bubbling. The indoor track is regarded as one of the world's fastest and close to a dozen other universities have already used the same design...

Author: By Christopher J. Georges, | Title: Bubbling over | 6/7/1984 | See Source »

Normal computers today process information using electronic wires, which limits the efficiency with which even the fastest computers can analyze large chunks of information...

Author: By Christopher J. Georges, | Title: Professor Chases Hyperspeed Computer | 5/14/1984 | See Source »

That fire once drove him exuberantly. As a cocky University of Oregon senior in 1980, Salazar predicted that he would win the New York Marathon, the first he had ever entered. He did. The next year he predicted he would run the fastest marathon ever in New York. Again he kept up with his words. His obsession to win almost killed him: in the summer of 1978 he received last rites from a priest when his body temperature hit 108° during the 7.1-mile Falmouth Road Race in Massachusetts; after winning the 1982 Boston Marathon, he required...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Salazar's Marathon Ordeal | 5/7/1984 | See Source »

...race of a different kind is just beginning for the world's fastest female marathoner. Joan Benoit, 26, the plucky, pint-size distance runner from Freeport, Me., had seemed a good bet to challenge Norway's Grete Waitz in this year's Olympic marathon, the first ever for women, but on March 20 during a 20-mile run near her home, she noticed a peculiar pain in her right knee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Salazar's Marathon Ordeal | 5/7/1984 | See Source »

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