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...that push and even pay employees to get healthier. At Intermatic Inc., a manufacturing company in Spring Grove, Ill., employees who have stayed off cigarettes a year win a trip for two to Las Vegas. The Hospital Corp. of America in Nashville pays participating staff members 24˘ for each mile run or walked, each quarter-mile swum or four miles bicycled. At Scherer Brothers Lumber Co., boasts Vice President Gregory Scherer, "We have no sick pay, we have well pay." For each month that a worker is neither late nor out ill, the Minneapolis firm awards an extra two hours...
...precious Colorado River water, at the rate of more than 10 million cu. ft. per hour, from Lake Havasu on the California border southeast across the state to the expanding population centers of Phoenix and Tucson. A series of 14 pumping stations will force the water through a seven-mile tunnel in the Buckskin Mountains and lift the load 2,900 ft. over the course of a seven-day journey. The flow is monitored by a Modcomp JC 5000 computer situated in CAP headquarters near Phoenix, where controllers keep track of the system's operations on a 30-ft.-wide...
...know that he had been flying 7,000 ft. above a 17,716-ft.-high, long-dormant volcano known as Nevado del Ruiz at the exact moment when it came thunderously alive. Within hours, that rebirth had left upwards of 20,000 people dead or missing in a steaming, mile-wide avalanche of gray ash and mud. Thousands more were injured, orphaned and homeless. The Colombian town of Armero (pop. about 22,500) had virtually disappeared. At week's end a huge cloud of ash, rising as high as 45,000 ft., hung dramatically over the area. The pall obscured...
...these prepared runners, the 26.2-mile event—which includes a quick tour through Wellesley College and a torturous climb up Heartbreak Hill at about the 20th-mile—represents the culmination of months of physically demanding training. The marathon is also an opportunity for some participants to raise money for charities and humanitarian causes...
...goal in this is definitely to cross the finish line,” said Gordon, who has come a long way since her middle school days when she took 13 minutes to run one mile...