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...star Carl Lewis and swimmer Dana Torres, have muscles containing a large majority of fast-twitch fibers. So, surprisingly, do shot putters and weight lifters, who need not only strength but power too. "They have to move a heavy weight very quickly," explains U.S. Olympic Training Center physiologist Steve Fleck. "Weight lifters in the clean-and-jerk event can move as fast as a sprinter." Distance runners and swimmers, on the other hand, have mostly slow-twitch fibers...
Heredity has a lot to do with the muscles' makeup, but training can play a part as well. "You can't convert slow-twitch into fast-twitch fibers," says Fleck, but you can speed them up a bit. Middle-distance runners who want to improve their final kick can go through drills of bounding, jumping and sprinting to condition their muscle fibers to contract more quickly...
...verdict just handed down by a federal court in Los Angeles. In 1990 Frohnmayer, hoping to mollify the Republican right, introduced a clause requiring "general standards of decency" as a basis for NEA grants. On that standard, four performance artists (Karen Finley, Holly Hughes, John Fleck and Tim Miller) saw their applications for grants rejected and sued the NEA. Last week Judge A. Wallace Tashima struck down the "decency" clause as vague and unconstitutional. The government, he said, does not have "free rein to impose ( whatever content restrictions it chooses" on federally funded art. "The right of artists to challenge...
...long relative silence to tell a private meeting of arts leaders in Seattle in late June, "It is our job to recognize the political realities," and indicated that some grants will be denied on grounds other than artistic merit. Within days, four examples emerged: performance artists Karen Finley, John Fleck, Holly Hughes and Tom Miller. All had been funded before and were recommended again by peers. But all emphasize sexual issues, including feminism and empathy for gays, which are flash points for the right. Finley, for example, appears nude to decry abuse of women, and has been assailed...
...Fleck can be as eloquent talking banjo as he is playing it. "There are things I want to play that I haven't been able to yet," he offers. "Like improvising. That can be a very spiritual experience. Stuff you don't even know pours out. I want to become more tuned into pulling off the notes I hear in my head at the exact moment I hear them. It's a lifelong goal." Stay tuned...