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...GREAT WHITE Scott Yerby never saw the great white shark before it attacked him as he surfed off Clam Beach near Eureka, Calif. "This thing jumped me--it had enough force to lift me right out of the water. It was on my leg, I could see my femur, there was blood in the water--I knew then it was pretty serious," says Yerby, who was 29 at the time of the August 1997 attack. He hit the shark on the nose (the prescribed last-ditch defense, along with ripping at its gills), managed to get back on his board...
...advantage as the country prepares for its next major soccer challenge, co-hosting the 2002 World Cup. "Nobody knows if Ono, Inamoto and Nishizawa will be able to play regularly in Europe," says Tokyo football writer Yoshiyuki Osumi. "But their experience of playing high-level soccer will certainly lift their performance and the Japan team." If the players help some European clubs sell more Tshirts along...
...Clinton economic slowdown. (Most economists blame the tax cut and the slowdown for the surplus shrinkage.) And the G.O.P. points out that even a reduced, $160 billion surplus amounts to the second largest ever. Republicans predict that Bush's tax rebate will soon give the sluggish economy a lift, generating more growth and higher tax receipts. And they claim that the real goal of the Democrats is to repeal Bush's tax cut. As Senator Pete Domenici, the ranking Republican on the Senate Budget Committee, put it, "If you really want to drive this country into the economic ditch, raise...
...relatively low wages paid skilled workers. An experienced production worker at Gdynia earns about $775 a month, compared with $3,690 in Japan and $3,300 in the U.S. The yard's business got a boost last year when European governments, under an OECD-orchestrated plan, agreed to lift their subsidies from competing shipyards. But Szlanta emphasizes that Gdynia also benefits from a pool of several dozen leading engineers, who were trained at Gdansk Technical University's elite shipbuilding school and are considered among the best in the world...
...skeptic, all evidence is anecdotal. But some anecdotes are more than encouraging; they are inspiring. Consider Sue Cohen, 54, an accountant, breast-cancer survivor and five-year yoga student at the Unity Woods studio in Bethesda, Maryland. "After my cancer surgery," Cohen says, "I thought I might never lift my arm again. Then here I am one day, standing on my head, leaning most of my 125-lb. (57-kg) body weight on that arm I thought I'd never be able to use again. Chemotherapy, surgery and some medications can rob you of mental acuity, but yoga helps compensate...