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Later on during the year, plans were drafted by both the Undergraduate Athletic Council and the Student Council to fix the ticketing problem, and were submitted to the Athletic Committee to create a situation that would improve the handling of tickets. After listening to the suggestions, the Committee came up with the envelope plan, and the controversy of the 1953 season seems to have now been mostly forgotten...
...THIS THE TOUGHEST TASK YOU'VE EVER HAD TO TACKLE? Perhaps. Generally when we are asked to come in and fix a situation, it is because it is tough...
...guarantee of improvement that I was willing to risk breaking the rules and potentially impacting my children or grandchildren," he says. One fair solution, as Stones sees it, would be to "legalize all steroids. That would surely level the playing field." While that might be an easy fix, it would turn sports into a test to see whose liver processed drugs best, a world where the long-jump record could be held by Keith Richards...
Though the ballooning obesity problem among the poor is finally getting the attention of academics and the government, nobody has yet come up with an easy fix. "Our remedies are very middle class," says Adam Drewnowski, director of the Center for Public Health Nutrition at the University of Washington. "They tell you, Seek a healthy diet and exercise. Well, if you're working two jobs and living in a trailer, you're in no mood to get home and make a salad." In the end, fitness may have less to do with genetics than with tax brackets. --By Lisa Takeuchi...
They went off to Iraq to drive trucks for Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR), hoping to score the ultimate jackpot--$80,000 tax-free for a year's work. Most were desperate to pay bills, to fix up houses, to send kids to college. For some, it was a patriotic duty. But in Iraq, wearing just a Kevlar jacket and helmet for safety, they found themselves in trucks with no armor, ferrying fuel to U.S. troops. They wielded hammers and cans of ravioli to defend themselves. And they came home with nightmares...