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Last Sunday at the Providence College Masters Swim Meet in Providence, R.I., 45-year old Phillip Whitten--a visiting lecturer in anthropology--competed in the men's 45-49 division and clocked a 2:46.88 to set a the world mark in the 200-meter breaststroke...
Roger Clemens and Mark McGwire are two prominent examples of baseball players developing their skills while garnering a college education. Neither missed a beat on the path to the major leagues...
...Hartman '57, Alan Gilbert '65, Aldyn McKean '70-'71, Susan Jhirad '64, Molly Backup '72, Mary Ellen Burns '70, Henry J. Sommer '71, Dale B. Fink '71-'72, Harry Rudloe '73, Craig Unger '71, Carol Sternhell '71, deborah Johnson '71, William M. kutik '70, Jan L. Handke (SPH '75), Mark R. Cullen '71 M. Barry '70, Mary Summers '70, Virginia Vogel Zanger '70-'72, Sylvia Lester '70, Felice Perlman '71-'73, Lowry Hemphill '72, Jonathan M.Harris '69-'71, Jean Alonzo '59, Charles Bernstein '72, Daniel Gilbarg '68, David Schuldberg '72-'73, Jonathan Walters '71, Judith E. Smith '70, Frances...
Even if Gorbachev is reined in, or toppled, the seeds he has sown in the Soviet mind and the changes he has already wrought will leave an indelible mark. The reforms of Khrushchev and Kosygin were squelched, but the ideas they planted blossomed a quarter-century later in a new generation of leadership. As Gorbachev told Henry Kissinger when he visited Moscow earlier this year, "At any rate, things will never be the same again in the Soviet Union." Notes Kissinger: "This would be a modest result for so Herculean a task." Yes, but once again the contradiction is also...
...limit when it cleaned up a small spill of a mere 1,500 bbl. in January. Workers who had been hired to devote full time to combatting oil spills were replaced by people whose primary duties lay elsewhere. The state government failed to keep Alyeska up to the mark; the legislature denied its watchdog agency funds for inspecting oil terminals and was pretty much reduced to taking the oil companies' word for their preparedness. The Coast Guard too has sustained deep budget cuts and, says a friendly observer, "is held together with baling wire." Its closest concentration of cleanup ships...