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That explanation seemed plausible to U.S. officials, who have long suspected that many Haitians pay smugglers $ 1,000 to $2,000 each to make the 600-mile jour ney to Florida. The refugees routinely deny that they bought their passage, but that may be because they will need to rely on the smugglers to bring them back again if they are deported from...
Nuclear power utilities created INPO after the 1979 accident at Three Mile Island, to help increase the safety of nuclear plants, a spokesman for the group said yesterday...
Though the $700,000 Xerox program is not compulsory for executives, participation is a route to faster promotion through the ranks. At the invisible end of the treadmill a vice presidency may be waiting. In the last mile of his workout, as his $40 running shoes echo on the treadmill, White resembles a movie hero: the young man who wrestles with the hand of a huge clock. If it strikes 12, the heroine will be decapitated or the dynamite will explode. Audley White has extracted a similar victory over the inevitable: time...
...glory of the body. The $20 million club contains ten tennis courts, a complete indoor golf facility, eight handball-racquetball courts, three squash courts, a basketball court, saunas, whirlpools, massage rooms, sleeping rooms, steam rooms, sunrooms, library, nursery, card room, an outdoor restaurant and a crowded, quarter-mile banked and cushioned indoor jogging track. As even the architecture asserts, life is nothing more-or less-than the body beautiful...
...trouble usually starts when sudden demands are made on an unconditioned body. In tennis and basketball, the knees and ankles must accommodate quick stops and starts and lightning changes of direction. In jogging, the athlete's feet typically strike the ground 800 to 1,000 times a mile, with an impact equivalent to about three times the body's weight. The shock jolts the entire skeleton. Statistically, at least, every one of the nearly 30 million runners in the U.S. can expect some ailment...