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...business he helped bring in. "I saw the upside of this arrangement," he recalls. Soon enough, he saw the downside. On Sept. 14, the national day of mourning for the terror attacks, he was let go during his lunch hour. Now neither Barton nor his wife Sherry, who quit a job last January to take care of her dying mother, has any health insurance. With an eight-year-old daughter to support, they're expecting to have to borrow from their retirement accounts just to pay their mortgage...
...have contacted or visited dozens of the 600 truck-driving schools across the U.S. and are seeking enrollment records going back as far as 1994. Some have asked for records of only students with Middle Eastern names or students who paid in cash, received haz-mat permits or abruptly quit their training. Some agents have shown pictures of the 19 hijackers to determine if they attended classes. Others have asked for lists of student names to be checked against the Federal Government's terrorist watch lists...
Discussing the limitations of age is passe to Short and her rodeo colleagues. "People tell me to quit all the time," says Mario Ciucci, 58, a bareback rider, "but I feel as good as I did at 35." Still, it's impossible to ignore the reality that a group of grandparents are dodging bull horns and bronco hooves--especially since the animals make no allowances for age. Injuries are guaranteed. In Redmond, a particularly ornery bull shatters a rider's leg in a serious accident that rodeo veterans refer to as a wreck. Most wrecks are not that severe...
...stretch every week, sometimes for a mere 7-sec. horseback ride. "People think we're nuts," says Ernest Forsberg, 58, a team roper and president of the N.S.P.R.A., "but I look at most people our age, and they're out of shape because they've quit doing what they love. None of us plan to quit...
...bull's-eye 70 m away. But a few athletes are fighting back, criticizing such workouts as not worth the risk. Midway through the August training camp, which was meant to prepare athletes for the Archery World Championship held two weeks ago in Beijing, four male archers suddenly quit. The Korean Archery Association responded by barring them from international competition for periods ranging from one to five years. Said Jung Pil Woo, head coach of the women's team: "We reprimanded them for the sake of the future of Korean archery...