Word: fasts
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...before we lend our voice to the naysayers, we should note that rumors have a way of flying fast and thick, and the tales which circulate about UHS often have more in common with urban legends than with reality. Looking closely at the statistics, the survey does indicate a nine-point percentage increase in the number of students who classified their evaluation of medical services as "very good" or "excellent" compared to a similar study conducted in 1992. Moreover, individual physicians and specialty services received satisfaction ratings of near 80 percent, and awareness of such important programs as rape crisis...
PHIL MULKEY An Olympian dreads practice, eats fast food--and wins...
...prepare for the Senior Games, Mulkey sprints daily along the streets of Marietta, Ga., outside Atlanta, and pole vaults an average of three times a week. He then downs a breakfast that would turn a health faddist ashen: scrambled eggs, sausage and biscuits and two hotcakes at a local fast-food spot. Vitamins B and C are the only supplements he takes...
...never left the mating game. "Until my marriage to Elizabeth, my singing career was more important than the pursuit of romance. But after that, women became my addiction," he admits. Like any addiction, it ended up tearing Fisher down. His book is a cautionary tale about life in the fast lane; he goes from the top of the heap, hobnobbing with Presidents, to the bottom, hooked on drugs and broke. Along the way, Fisher, who swings from appealing swagger to appalling hubris, never fails to entertain...
...charming about the geeks who made up the first wave of Internet entrepreneurs. Social misfits pounding out code in their computer-science labs--these people deserved professional success. But after the Wright Brothers, you get Frank Lorenzo. And so this summer Silicon Valley was flooded by the Second Wave: fast-talking business-school grads whose interest in technology is limited to how it will make them money. This is Silicon Valley in the IPO age. Geeks are history; they're all capitalists now. Netscape founder Marc Andreesen stars in a Miller Lite...