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...mile every twelve minutes, the walker uses up 530 calories an hour to the jogger's 480. The walker also takes fewer risks, according to a number of reports. "We see a lot of runners sent to us with leg and back problems," says Bill Farrell, founder of the Metro Atlanta Walkers Club. "My shins would kill me after running," remembers Elly Christophersen, 30, now a devoted Manhattan walker. "From the standpoint of health and wear and tear on the body, race walking is much better...
...CRITICS OF Foreign Policy Stage '60-Style Protest" read the headline in The Washingtion Post. The story ran on the front page of the Metro section. The New York Times headline read: "Thousands Protest U.S. Policy in Central America". Its story ran on page 32. Neither was surprising, though the Times' article seemed about three years late and the Post's about...
...Post article was most distressing, and not merely because it was in the Metro section next to a piece about cuts in real estate taxes in Arlington, Va. What rankled marchers was the epithet " '60s-Style Protest." The implication was clear. Aren't all those students with long hair and tie-dyed shirts just nostalgic for an era when drugs were cheap, sex was easy and it was cool to skip classes and shout slogans about our immoral government, parents and universities...
...Angeles: Metro Rail. Planned as the area's first rapid-transit system since the "red car" rail network was scrapped in the 1960s, the 20-mile, $4.5 billion subway is nonetheless considered extravagant. Construction began last fall on the first, 4.4-mile downtown segment, which will cost $1.25 billion, with $870 million coming from Washington. Opponents favor less costly projects, like surface railroads along existing freeways. One critical slogan: "Stop the Subway and Save Mass Transit." The highway bill gives L.A. another, more widely praised plum: 27 smaller projects, valued at $74 million, to improve gridlocked roads around the Port...
...years ago, Bromwell was the most unlikely of heroes. The 6-ft. 2-in sophomore transfer from Manhattan College (where he collected Metro Conference Rookie of the Year honors as a freshman) did not start the game because of disciplinary reasons...