Word: joggers
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...exhaustion. What a wuss. For today's extreme-endurance athletes, Pheidippides' fatal exertion would be a gentle warm-up. The real challenge is found in ultramarathons - races of up to 100 km (62 miles) or even farther, often over the kind of rough terrain that would make the average jogger hang up his sneakers in horror. Ultrarunners endure cramps, blisters, dehydration and the occasional exhaustion-induced hallucination. Why? All for the pleasure of more running. "It's a desire to go beyond your comfort level and test your own boundaries," says Dean Karnazes, champion ultrarunner and author of the best...
Health is one of my passions. From watching the Discovery Health channel while on the jogger, to making meals with mango, non-fat yogurt, raisins and nuts, to reading (almost exclusively) the health articles in the Wall Street Journal, I’m a health junkie. The summer fitness and nutrition program naturally drew me. But by volunteering with this program, I would be intentionally surrounding myself with those I loved to hate...
...crowd crosses Memorial Drive, passing a stopped jogger who gives the protesters a thumbs-up sign, and moves forward to occupy the length of the Harvard Bridge...
Perhaps more important, eyewitness testimony from other victims that night seems to suggest that at the time the jogger was being attacked, the boys were involved in muggings elsewhere in the park. Moreover, Reyes had committed another assault in the park a few days earlier; if investigators had noted the similarities in the cases, they might have considered other suspects besides the boys. The police "had made up their minds," says Roger Wareham, the attorney for McCray, Santana and Richardson. "They weren't going to let anything spoil their neatly tied package of convictions, and they used these children...
Police and prosecutors who worked the case, including Linda Fairstein, former chief of the district attorney's sex-crimes unit, concede that the DNA evidence proves Reyes raped the jogger, whose identity is still being shielded, though she will reveal it when she publishes a book about her experience next year. But Fairstein continues to insist that the new evidence "does not exonerate the other five, who by their own admissions participated in her attack by holding her down and striking her to the ground." Reyes, now 31, said he was moved to admit his guilt after witnessing the hard...