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...think my best running years are still ahead of me," Jones says. "25 to 32 are the peak years for distance runners. I think the marathon may be my race...
...humor. Before meeting Bessmertnykh in Kislovodsk, Baker was given a tour of the Caucasus Mountain resort. Standing atop limestone cliffs, he was asked how clearly he could see peace ahead. He gestured toward vast Mount Elbrus in the distance and deadpanned, "I can see things extraordinarily clearly." The peak was barely visible through the afternoon haze...
...precisely the politically correct moment. Like the cavalry in an old-time western racing over the hill to save the wagon train from the murderous Indians -- oops!, misunderstood Native Americans -- Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus arrives just as public outrage is building to a peak. Liberals and conservatives alike have suddenly joined forces to ridicule the excesses of left-wing policies and posturing in academia. It is almost as if, having exorcised the legacy of Vietnam in foreign policy, Americans are now mounting a mopping-up operation against that last bastion of 1960s-style thought...
...than economic significance. "The Dow is purely the public's index. No money manager whom I know pegs his or her results to the Dow Jones," says Wharton School finance professor Jeremy Siegel. When adjusted for inflation, even the Dow has seen more spectacular days. A Feb. 9, 1966, peak of 995.15 remains its highest real value ever: in today's dollars...
...lion-head spout served a cup of coffee for eternity. Last week Horn & Hardart closed the nation's last surviving Automat, on New York City's 42nd Street, two blocks east of Grand Central station. First opened in 1912, the cafeterias served 400,000 customers a day at their peak in the early 1950s. Famous actresses, well-heeled businessmen and just plain folks plunked their coins into glass-and-chrome dispensers to feast on such fare as Boston baked beans, macaroni and cheese and coconut-custard...