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What they did is like yanking parts out of an electrical appliance, explains Caleb E. Finch, an aging expert at the University of Southern California...
...modify a process by removing one of its controlling parts," says Finch. "It's like if you started pulling computer chips out of a radio...
...incredibly, Woods was going to risk it all by overhauling the swing that had brought him to this summit. He told his coach he wanted to make serious changes in the way he struck the ball. The history of such efforts is not auspicious. Some fine golfers--Ian Baker-Finch, Seve Ballesteros, Chip Beck--have revamped their swing and never returned to their earlier glory. What was Woods thinking...
...changed calendar did little for Fanny Finch Elementary, a year-round school in McKinney, Texas. It was so hot there in July that the school regularly canceled recess and families started leaving for other districts. After five restless summers in class--and negligible student improvement--the school is switching back to a traditional timetable. "My kids missed out on family vacations and swimming lessons, and on just being kids," says mother Darlene Clark. "I kind of missed the summer myself...
DIED. GENE RAYBURN, 81, unrufflable TV quizmaster who was host of The Match Game for 14 seasons; in Gloucester, Mass. His postwar show with Dee Finch on New York's WNEW helped establish comedy as a staple of morning radio. He was Steve Allen's announcer on the original Tonight Show...