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...Angeles. Within 11 minutes he had alerted California crews, who placed three locomotives in the path to take the crunch. No lives were lost. Locomotives that used to sit for days waiting for loaded cars are now turned around in hours. Empty cars are shuttled like airplanes. Huge "hump" operations like Conrail's Selkirk Yard, near Albany, New York, can sort 3,200 freight cars a day and send out trains to 70 destinations...
...world's largest indoor ski slope has no up-close competition from nature -- and that explains the excitement over it. SSAWS, which stands for Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter Snow, is a $366.9 million building shaped like a giant mechanical centipede whose highest hump reaches 25 stories. On opening day two weeks ago, hundreds of summer skiers, eager to escape muggy Tokyo, lined up for the first runs down the slopes. Regular, outdoor Japanese slopes are notoriously crowded -- and SSAWS is likely to be as well when it is fully operational. However, SSAWS is only 30 min. from Tokyo Station...
...Crimson still couldn't get over the hump, however, as it finished third in its four-team pool. Only the top two teams advanced to the second day of play...
...colors of their country, or their company sponsor, the front runners do not acknowledge the cheering crowd. Conservative and calculating, they monitor their pace and fluid levels with the detachment of a boilerman checking fuel guages. Clumps of serious runners follow, dedicated amateurs clustered behind a pacer. Then the hump of the bell curve runs by, the anonymous pack one standard deviation from the mean. After that there are no more clumps but, rather, a constant stream, preventing you from crossing the street without careful timing and a quick dash...
...crippling symptoms of osteoporosis have become almost synonymous with old age. The dowager's hump, the loss of height, the painful and often debilitating fractures of the spine and hip nearly always occur in elderly women after menopause (as well as in a smaller number of older men). And that age group has been the focus of prevention and treatment efforts...