Word: florida
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...batsmen travelled to Florida for eight games against Sox minor leaguers, most of them from Double or Triple...
...skill to play on Harvard women's tennis team, the best squad in the East. A first place ECAC finish and victories over nationally ranked Florida State and Texas University placed the Crimson in the top 20 in the nation in the preseason polls...
...degenerative joint disease. However, the runners, ages 50 to 72, did have 40% higher bone density than their counterparts in the control group. "Running prevents bone loss," concludes Lane, "and that's a good finding for women," since they often develop osteoporosis after menopause. At the University of Florida, Gainesville, Dr. Richard Panush and his colleagues compared a group of 17 male runners, ages 50 to 74, with a similar group of 18 non runners and, like the Stanford team, turned up no significant differences in the incidence of joint disease. "Our results are consistent with the thought that putting...
...separate safety problem--on a launch last Jan. 12 of the shuttle Columbia with Florida Congressman Bill Nelson aboard--sources on the presidential commission told TIME that NASA tried to persuade technicians of Rockwell Corp.'s Rocketdyne Division to bypass faulty valves on lines feeding the liquid-oxygen fuel tank. Rocketdyne refused, and NASA learned later that a foul-up was causing the huge external fuel tank to drain rather than fill. "If that orbiter had lifted off with the tank almost empty, it would have imploded, collapsed, and that would have finished the shuttle," said the commission source...
...better choice perhaps would be the Dry Tortugas, just below the Florida Keys. Once a haven for pirates, an old prison island surrounded by shipwrecks, by sharks and barracuda and stingrays and poisonous fantasies of treasure, the place shimmers with the right sunny-sinister atmospherics for the brotherhood...