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...knows the grind better than Tom Ferguson. Last year he drove 80,000 miles in his 1973 Ford camper to compete in 112 rodeos from Florida to Alberta. In a dizzying week recently, he made three 800-mile round trips to appear in a pair of rodeos in Utah and a nine-day competition in Cheyenne. "If there's a choice between staying one place and going," explains the tireless Ferguson, "I'd rather keep going...
...biggest problem is the airport's vaunted Airtrans, a 13-mile computer-controlled system of tracked trams designed to transport passengers around the terminal perimeter. Because the system was apparently oversensitized, the cars grind to a dismaying halt if even a light bulb fails. The trains often skip stations or fail to open doors after stopping, while passengers inside bang on the windows to get out and those waiting to board bang on the glass to get in. Houston Industrialist Howard Purvis says that he was recently trapped aboard Airtrans "for two complete circuits. Finally, I got off close...
...grind for high grades, many pre-med students give up extracurricular activities and a normal social life in favor of almost unbroken stretches of studying. "People have become so obsessed with what grade they are getting that what they are learning becomes secondary," says James Young, 20, a Duke University junior. "I know a lot of people who started out pre-med and would have made excellent doctors, but who dropped out because of the competition and the grades." Those who stay on keep closemouthed about what they have learned. Shared studying among pre-meds is rare; a student...
...formal punctuation. The Last Christmas Eve, the opening episode, is dedicated to Hans Christian Andersen. The curtain goes up on a wistful tale of two beggars, an old man and his aging inamorata who pass Christmas Eve down by the Seine. It is a fragile story, easy enough to grind into sentimentality, but Renoir makes it true by conveying a poignant dignity that leaves no room for pathos...
...personality might be able to slow himself down by writing "his own obituary." But wouldn't this Type A fellow, upon reading the obituary, decide that he had not accomplished enough, that time was running out on him, and that he had better hurry back to the grind...