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...pepper curls around her face seem to crackle with vitality. A few years ago in New York City, the pint-size journalist fearlessly ran down a 6-ft., 13-year-old mugger who had snatched a watch from her neck. The kid must not have been following her exercise regimen...
McEnroe began preparing for his return to the pro tour with a regimen of yoga and weight training. Aware of the odds against ever regaining the No. 1 spot he last held in 1984, he has also started to work at a game for which he had never had to push himself before. "I'm going to show my best tennis down the road," he said. "And I also believe . . . that being in such great physical shape is going to help me mentally when things try to bother me on the court...
Welcome to Parchman's "boot camp" prison. Officially known as the Regimented Inmate Discipline program, it is a paramilitary project designed to discourage young, first-time felons from pursuing a life of crime. Under constant harassment from prison officers, the participants are put through a regimen of grueling exercise and labor. After 90 days, the burglars, robbers and petty dope pushers are supposed to be transformed into confident, upstanding citizens...
...where on summer mornings teenagers meet to work on their strokes and serves. They dress in fashionable warm-up outfits or immaculate whites adorned with well-known logos and swing imported Volkl, Kneissel or Belgian "Snauwaert" carbon racquets. Hovering nearby, track-suited trainers murmur advice. The days are a regimen of practice matches, endurance training and chalkboard strategy sessions, followed by evening shape-ups with sports psychologists...
...couple well-to-do and doting. In fact, the parents were so committed to caring for Noelle (not her real name) that they had placed her on a stringent low-fat diet in an effort to ensure that she did not become obese. Told that the strict regimen was stunting the toddler's growth, they were surprised. Says Pugliese, a pediatric endocrinologist at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, N.Y.: "They really felt they were doing what was right for the child's long-term benefit...