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...Duckman was too weak for his presurgical routine. So now he is building up slowly as he gets ready for the October competition. He started with short, quarter-mile walks around his condominium, mixing that routine with both swimming and running in the pool. He can once again pump out 16 push-ups, more than, he notes, young recruits must do when they join the Army. "You can imagine how long it takes an 80-year-old to get into shape," says Duckman. Yes. What is unimaginable would be Duckman's not wanting...
...Gore had hoped his work on Russia would serve as Exhibit A in proving his readiness to step into the President's job. Now it makes him accountable for the Administration's decisions. He will face questions about where the money that he helped pump into Moscow actually went and about his friendship with Viktor Chernomyrdin while the former Prime Minister was suspected of stashing away millions. Administration officials concede that they underestimated the groundswell of corruption that came with Russian privatization. They had plenty of intelligence about the kleptocratic shenanigans, but didn't want to let it derail more...
...balance, investors continue to pump a lot of money into stock funds--$103 billion more than they took out through July. But last year that figure was $144 billion. And on the redemption side (ignoring new money coming in) the bloodletting has rarely been so extreme. At the current pace, investors will cash out $732 billion from stock funds this year, equal to 22% of the industry's $3.4 trillion in stock-fund assets. That percentage has run in the middle teens since 1990, according to the Investment Company Institute, a trade group. Why all the selling? Possibly online stock...
...battery died, leaving the crew stranded 45 miles south of Martha's Vineyard, with a dead engine and no radio, lights or bilge pump late in the afternoon. The crew was not worried, even as attempts to revive the engine failed...
Pony-skin anything Indulge in equine madness: Dolce & Gabbana's pump...