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...MAHABHARATA (PBS, March 25, 26, 27, 9 p.m. on most stations). Another stage event, Peter Brook's marathon version of the Hindu sacred epic, comes to TV in three two-hour segments...
...Milosevic and his regime are clearly not not going to bow out with a whimper. In three tense marathon sessions of the collective federal presidency (made up of representatives of all six republics and the two Serbian provinces of Vojvodina and Kosovo), Jovic, backed by the army chief of staff, had pressed for a military crackdown. "Milosevic is a fighting man," said Milovan Djilas, a dissident communist who was jailed repeatedly by Marshal Josip Broz Tito in the 1950s and '60s. "He won't go for a fundamental change of policy...
...each taping, Talvy and Harper bring 15 changes of clothing--and large water bottles. "It's like a big dance marathon," says Talvy. "Basically, it's like slave labor. It's grueling because Julie Brown takes forever to change her clothes. She has to look perfect, and we sit there waiting...
...Lincoln Center marathon wins the prize for endurance. Mozart's complete works, including unfinished pieces and arrangements, are now estimated to total 835 compositions, instead of the familiar Kochel list of 626. The complete presentation will enable a sufficiently dogged listener to sample such obscure efforts as the unfinished opera L'Oca del Cairo. And the quality of performances should be extremely high -- Itzhak Perlman and Daniel Barenboim playing violin sonatas, for example; Mitsuko Uchida all the piano sonatas; both the Juilliard and Tokyo quartets on hand for chamber music...
...study, however, the researchers were not examining older women. Instead, they were trying to find out why one group of young women -- marathon runners -- seemed to be peculiarly predisposed to osteoporosis. The researchers theorized that disruptions in the runners' menstrual cycles might be at fault. But to their surprise, when they compared the marathoners with women who ran for recreation and others who engaged in no special physical activity, the researchers found that menstrual disturbances were common in all three groups...