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...second most popular outdoor activity in the U.S. (after swimming), up from fifth place in 1985. American Sports Data, a market-research firm in Hartsdale, N.Y., estimates that there are about 25 million serious walkers of all strides, compared with 13 million runners in 1983, the jogging peak. Actresses Cybill Shepherd and Shelley Hack walk. So do Bob Hope and Walter Matthau. To certify the trend, Jane Fonda will be out next month with two training cassettes -- for the Walkman, naturally...
...keep themselves in peak condition, walkers are puffing through city parks and suburban streets. Brad Ketchum, editor of the Boston-based Walking Magazine, counts 10,000 walking events taking place this year. Among them: the Boston Stride, the San Francisco Stride (which drew 6,000 last fall) and the Casimiro Alongi International Memorial Racewalk in Dearborn, Mich. To supply this horde, Reebok, Avia and Rockport, even though they are commonly owned, & are separately producing a variety of models. Nike says that last year it sold more than half a million pairs of its specially fashioned flexible walking shoes...
...Dana Ivey) and her black chauffeur (Morgan Freeman), told in vignettes ranging from just after World War II to the era of the civil rights movement. This little gem echoes decades of social change yet never loses focus on the peculiar equilibrium between servant and served. It reaches a peak when the old woman goes to a banquet honoring Martin Luther King Jr. -- an event her liberal but conformist | businessman son (Ray Gill) refuses to attend -- and cannot quite bring herself to invite the driver to accompany her until the moment they reach the hotel, when his dignity compels...
Black representation in student bodies has fallen from a peak of 7.7 percent a decade ago to 5.3 percent today, according to figures published by Newsweek...
...Great American Housing Party over? In 1981 U.S. mortgage rates began declining from a peak of 16% to less than 9% earlier this year. During that span the previously stagnant building industry boomed, and millions of U.S. consumers rushed to buy new homes or cash in their old mortgages for cheaper ones. Last week, though, lenders, home buyers and builders were shaken by the sharpest mortgage-rate run-up in years. The interest-rate hike may prove to be temporary, but it caused a minor panic. "The rise was so sudden that most consumers are still dazed," says Eric Fessler...