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These days, both are in killer mode, training as much as six hours a day. "Tilt it more! Arch your back!" Dean prods them during workouts in Oberstdorf. Sometimes the sessions are brutal. "I'm glad my mother isn't watching," Isabelle says. "We step on each other's feet, cut our hands. Paul was hospitalized once with a nose hemorrhage." Isabelle's melodramatic description may be part of the Duchesnays' Olympic psych-up. As front runners, they have to work all the harder to maintain the diehard, embattled anxiety they will be relying on to spin their dreams...
...Sect B has its way, the study of Milton and Titian will be replaced by indoctrination programs in the works of obscure Third World authors and West Coast Chicano subway muralists, and the pillars of learning will forthwith collapse. Meanwhile, Sect B is so stuck in the complaint mode that it can't mount a satisfactory defense, since it has burned most of its bridges to the culture at large...
When the atomic bombs were used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki it was with the firm knowledge that massive destruction--the extermination of society--was a legitimate mode of military action. With 200,000 dead Japanese in the first week, the bombs brought victory...
...world's population accounts for half the estimated 10 million AIDS infections around the globe, heterosexual transmission is responsible for more than 8 out of 10 cases. In Southern and Southeast Asia, where the epidemic is growing more rapidly than anywhere else, heterosexual contact is also the dominant mode of transmission. Among the prostitutes in Bombay's red-light district, 25% to 30% are HIV positive. In the poorer sections of Nairobi, Kenya, infection rates among prostitutes run higher than...
...bicycles as a primary mode of transportation would help relieve the city's congestion, parking and pollution problems, according to advocates of the program...