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...keep their choice flights open to more paying passengers, many carriers encourage frequent flyers to use their travel bonuses during off-peak periods. An unrestricted Eastern or Continental round-trip ticket to Hawaii normally costs 50,000 miles. During off-peak seasons in the fall and late spring, the same trip can be had for 30,000 miles. At American, travelers can fly economy class to Europe for 90,000 miles. But off-peak the same trip costs 60,000 miles...
...students themselves, that too many are missing the full richness of curriculum and instruction Harvard offers. Those who do not excel are of particular concern. In making this comment, we recognize that there is a certain inevitability here, that not all students can be expected to perform at their peak all of the time, and that personal circumstances are bound to prevent a fair number from doing so, perhaps throughout their undergraduate years. But we sense that there are steps which can be taken to assist more effectively the less agressive, the mediocre and poor performer...
Cray did not trail for long, however. Last week the company introduced the much ballyhooed Y-MP model. Though it is difficult to compare peak computer speeds accurately, the new Cray, which can perform as many as 4 billion calculations per second, is probably at least as fast as any other machine on the market...
...Bone mass reaches its peak in the 30s for both men and women, then begins to drop by about 1% a year. In women the rate surges for a few years after menopause. About 24 million Americans, the vast majority of them women, develop osteoporosis, a condition in which the bones become dangerously thin and fragile. Brittle bones are the major cause of the fractures, particularly of the hip, that cripple many of the elderly. Alcohol and tobacco use accelerates bone thinning. Another reason to stop smoking: women who use tobacco reach menopause about two years earlier than women...
...injuries from too many falls persuaded the 13-year-old to switch to speed skating -- less glamorous, more rewarding of power than finesse. She won one gold medal at Lake Placid in 1980 and two more (plus two silvers) at Sarajevo. Now approaching her physical peak at 26, Kania says, "My aim is two gold medals in the Olympics." How about three? "Oh, no! Just two." And she waves off any bad luck that might come of talking about impossible feats. In fact, at Calgary she is favored in the 1,000- and 1,500-meter races; she holds...