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...prevailing wisdom of our now full-blown American fitness craze. Our mentality has been geared to consider bowling ball biceps, wash-board abdomens and slender hips as the be-all and end-all of what it means to be truly healthy. And amid all the bang and blab a partial view of reality, and real fitness, has been allowed to take hold, one that neglects that there is an internal side to good fitness as well...

Author: By Joseph C. Tedeschi, | Title: Wisdom From Muscle Beach | 3/22/1989 | See Source »

...first hitter he faced in batting practice was Lance Parrish, a former Detroit catcher he had been partial to in Flint. ("I definitely didn't want to bean him.") The ball came flying back with a wonderful new timbre. "He was the first guy I ever faced with a wooden bat," says Abbott, too young to see the sadness in how far a player has to come these days to escape aluminum. After hitting against the rookie, Parrish moved behind the plate: "He probably has as strong an arm as any lefthander I've ever caught. His motion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Dreaming The Big Dreams | 3/20/1989 | See Source »

After the January inflation report, which included a 0.6 percent rise in the Consumer Price Index, the largest in two years, many economists dismissed it as at least a partial aberration and predicted only a moderate 0.4 climb in February...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wholesale Prices Continue Upward Climb | 3/18/1989 | See Source »

Protest changed Whitlock's mind in 1974. The Committee on Housing and Undergraduate Life created a partial lottery system, from which the current housing lottery process has evolved...

Author: By Michael S. Berk, | Title: Moving Beyond Barons to a Computer Age | 3/15/1989 | See Source »

...partial lottery pleased so many that in 1976 it was expanded into a full lottery based completely on numerical preference. Students ranked their choices, and the lottery went through each group's choices completely before passing to the next number...

Author: By Michael S. Berk, | Title: Moving Beyond Barons to a Computer Age | 3/15/1989 | See Source »

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