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More interesting TV pictures may originate outside the hall. To re-create a bit of the Old West for out-of-towners, Local Rancher John Ball plans to hold a cattle drive along the Trinity River, ending up less than a mile from downtown every morning of the convention. Some 150 longhorns and about a dozen cowboys will take part in the four-mile outings...
...Great Wall, which snakes across some 4,100 miles of northern China, has long been a symbol of national unity. Today the world's longest man-made structure also symbolizes disintegration. According to the Peking Evening News, more than half of the 100-mile segment within Peking's municipal limits is in ruins. One 19-mile stretch in Miyun county has virtually disappeared. The collapse is due partly to erosion and neglect through the ages; much damage was also done by peasants who expressed their contempt for tradition during the Cultural Revolution (1966-76) by ripping off pieces...
Like all top athletes, Joan Benoit is accustomed to pain. But one day last March, more than halfway through a routine 20-mile run in Maine in preparation for the Olympic marathon, she felt a sharp stab on the outside of her right knee. Within the next mile, she recalls, "the knee completely prevented me from running another step." Her doctor, Orthopedic Surgeon Robert Leach of Boston University Medical Center, gave her an injection of cortisone. After a week's rest Benoit resumed training, but in early April she again had to "walk out of a run." This time...
...normal wear. Many sports put added strain on the joint. The worst: football, basketball, skiing, soccer, weight lifting and wrestling. And a runner, says Dr. James Hill, co-director of sports medicine at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, "takes an average of 1,000 to 1,200 steps a mile, with two to three times the body weight on the knee at each step...
...effort to stem the tide of destruction, workers with the Southern Pacific Railroad maneuvered a large crane last week along a 27-mile causeway built of 50 million cu. yds. of rock, sand and gravel that divides the lake into north and south sections. The aim of the engineers: to begin carving a 300-ft. breach in the causeway, the final step in a three-month, $3.2 million project. If they are successful, water on the south side of the lake will fall about 9 in. during the next two months, lessening the threat of floods to Salt Lake City...