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...shot a hundred or a thousand times. Then he was in the air as high as he could go, his right arm raised with the ball touching the heel of his hand and resting like a cloud on his fingertips. He flexed his wrist, and he felt the ball lift off into a medium orbit, and as soon as it began the 15-ft. trajectory, he knew it would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hugh Sidey's America: Floor of Dreams | 3/29/1993 | See Source »

...idea would have seemed absurd. But that was before the results started coming in from a group of long-term health studies of 10,000 gay men, begun in the late 1970s to mid-1980s. Scientists, prodded by AIDS activists who wanted to "study the healthy" and to lift the shadows of doom that surround the disease, have now documented at least 70 cases like Anderson's. Researchers are also beginning to find similarly healthy, long-lived survivors among women and children with HIV. There is now good reason to hope that at least 5% of the estimated 1 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Some People Immune to AIDS? | 3/22/1993 | See Source »

SILENT SKI LIFT, DEADLY SKI LIFT (Fox): Movie of the Week. Lost skiers (Shannen Doherty and Susan Lucci) bitterly accuse their expedition guide (Corbin Bernsen) of leading them into the path of an avalanche. The movie reaches its dramatic climax when Bernsen refuses to give Doherty his sleeping bag until she asks for it a third time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forward Spin: Mar. 15, 1993 | 3/15/1993 | See Source »

...terms of conditioning, that's really not much more we can do. We sprint hard...we lift weights," Landry said. "When you don't have the numbers to put three or four lines, people are gonna get fatigued. Pretty much every game, you're gonna have a shift where you want...

Author: By Geoffrey J. Hoffman, | Title: Suffering From Extreme Exhaustion on the Ice | 3/9/1993 | See Source »

While Harvard had to wrestle with its own fatigue, the opponent was able to lift its play to another level. Like an exhausted 400-meter runner, Harvard would "hit the wall" as the other team sprinted to victory...

Author: By Geoffrey J. Hoffman, | Title: Suffering From Extreme Exhaustion on the Ice | 3/9/1993 | See Source »

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