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...Boston marathon tends to draw out a vein of exhibitionism in runners. Why elso would someone sweat out the course in a full tuxedo as one runner did Monday? "It's like the race is a parade and the runners are floats, only better," one runner said. Another hint for you prospectives: wear something catchy so the crowd will yell for you it can carry you through the race. Try, for example, a totem pole mask and a flowing blond wig, like one Japanese runner did this year...
...this season of rain the linksters pine for the first hint of spring, when they can remove their dusty clubs from their winter quarters. The first shot of spring has a mystical significance as the golfer stands on the tee looking somewhat like Keats' "stout cortez" as he surveys his shot sailing over the unsullied fairway...
...slightest hint of trouble, the reactor's computer is programmed to drop the control rods back into the core. That curtails the core's chain reaction, but heat is still given off. If the core's temperature rises precipitously as a result of the problem, possibly a loss of cooling fluid (a "blowdown"), the computer will activate an emergency core cooling system. That system should quickly dump thousands of gallons of water on the hot core, preventing what has become known as a "meltdown," in which the fuel melts through the floor of the containment building into...
...blacks, they risk getting sued by passed-over whites. If they admit their own past discrimination to justify such a program, they risk suits by blacks. If they do nothing, they stand to lose valuable federal contracts and be sued by blacks anyway. As usual, the Justices gave no hint as to how they plan to resolve the legal dilemma. But on their decision, which is expected this spring, hangs a question that could affect all Americans: Who gets ahead in the nation's workplaces...
...week's end the number of dead was estimated to be between 100 and 200, many of them civilians. Few officials held out much prospect that the government delegation would be able to achieve anything except a fragile ceasefire. Moreover, any hint of compromise on autonomy for the Kurds could raise the hopes of other dissident nationalist minorities-Azerbaijanis, Turkomans, the Arabs of the vital oilfields in Khuzestan, and even the Baluchis in the far southeast...