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FITNESS FOR THE FAST AND FURIOUS...
...according to the polls, at an all-time low, that it can be an honorable craft. Deep Throat be damned; he was, it seems, more mentor than prime informant on the story. It was the hardworking boys--fueled by ambition (yes, that, speaking of low human motives), passion and fast food--who put the puzzle together. Do you think, just possibly, we could use a few more of their ilk right now in Washington...
Attach the circular Nike Philips MP3 Run ($299; nike-philips.com to your elbow and stick a wireless pedometer to your shoelaces, and the device will show how far and how fast you've run. Or hit a button to switch to music mode, and the MP3 player will let the Chariots of Fire theme inspire...
Join the club, Charles. Folks with no visible trace of their roots are fast multiplying. Teardowns, once the province of the exceptionally rich and developers rehabbing crumbling neighborhoods, have gone mainstream. Today well-kept homes are being knocked down by the thousands so that builders can get at the valuable ground beneath. "There's a certain sadness about what's happening to those great little cottages," Brit Fennell, a Coldwell Banker broker, says of Levan's old neighborhood, known as Brentwood Flats. "But the mansionization trend is consumer demand at work...
This is the toughest part of the race for Rusch. Men tend to start out strong and finish weak; female racers, by contrast, gain momentum. "The first day is survival for me because everyone is so amped and they go out fast," says Rusch of the five-man, one-woman team she leads. "I'm just hanging on so I don't fall back." After just two hours, she has used up most of her glycogen--a form of energy derived from sugar and stored in muscles and certain organs--and her body starts running on fat and whatever calories...