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...when men and women in the enlisted ranks are asked why they joined, they cite pay, training and educational benefits. Those same matters are emphasized in recruitment brochures; only TV ads still play on male bonding. Says Peter Morrison, a military demographer with the Rand Corp. in Santa Monica, California: "Most look at the military as a way to bootstrap their...
...getting any less good. There are days when she plays the best tennis she has ever played. She just has more ups and downs." When asked about her highlights of 1992, Navratilova cites two victories and, unthinkable a few years ago, a defeat by the current No. 1, Monica Seles, at Wimbledon. "I looked at the videotape, and it was much closer than I thought," she says with a smile. A couple of years ago, the sense of might-have-been would have nagged at her for months...
...caught early, the skin cancer called malignant melanoma is curable. If not, it's almost always fatal. But a new treatment under study at the John Wayne Cancer Institute in Santa Monica, Calif., appears at least to prolong lives. Researchers injected patients with a tuberculosis vaccine mixed with melanoma cells. Result: average survival went from seven to 23 months, with some staying cancer free for eight years. The doctors warn that an approved vaccine could take a decade...
Since top athletes constantly go for broke and wind up straining or injuring themselves, physical therapy has become a vital part of training science. Kinesiologist Linda Huey of Santa Monica, Calif., devised a water exercise program to help keep long jumper Powell in shape after he had an emergency appendectomy just six weeks before the Olympic trials in 1988. "On land, he could not have trained," explains Huey...
...demanded, "Stop that grunt!" One writer, claiming to have monitored her with a "gruntometer," said the noises coming out of the 18-year-old registered 93 decibels, about what a diesel train would produce. The grunts emitted by Gabriela Sabatini and Jennifer Capriati were deemed dulcet whimpers compared with Monica's. Countered Seles: "I don't think I'm going to win a match because I'm grunting...