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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mike Heath, at 19 one of the bright new hopes of the U.S. team, swam his 200 meters in front of the pack and beat his West German opponent by a body length. David Larson gave almost a second body length to Jeff Float, another boycott veteran, swimming his last race for the team. Float gave back a little, but when Bruce Hayes hit the water for the final leg, he had a length and a half on the Albatross. Remarkably, Gross had made up almost all of it by the end of the first 50 meters. Hayes kept...
...premature breakaway. He gained 24 sec., but Bauer was soon riding in his slips stream. In the last 200 meters, the fatigued American downgeared slightly and blasted up the final grade, rising on his pedals and throwing up his arms as he crossed the line, barely a cycle length ahead of Bauer. Of the temperamental Grewal, Eddie B. shrugged: "Sometimes he's good, sometimes he's bad and sometimes he's crazy...
...politicians who pride themselves on being so pragmatic, people like Gary Hart, Jerry Brown, and Timothy Wirth--three of the men Rothenberg discusses at length (he discusses to women)--their failure often to get things done politically is striking, as anyone who remembers the Medfly fiasco in California can attest to. Others of this breed seem more sensible, a Tsongas or a Sen. Bill Bradley (D-N.J.). Rothenberg writes of the way similar rhetoric characterizes the neoliberals. That's well enough, but behind this rhetoric there is a distinct lack of the coalition-building and bridge-crossing that makes...
Congressional pensions are based on a formula that takes into account the length of service and the average of the recipient's three highest-salaried years; generous cost of living increases bloat benefits further...
...published in last week's issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, further confirms the benefits. According to its principal author, Dr. Ralph Paffenbarger, the study of 17,000 men ages 35 through 84 revealed "a direct relationship between the level of physical activity and the length of life." Fatal heart disease was found to be nearly twice as common among the most sedentary subjects as it among the most active, Concludes Dr. George Shee-the medical editor Runner's World magazine, who is a marathon runner was a friend of Fixx...