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...Olympics, a track writer is defined as a baseball writer with borrowed binoculars. Mysterious wonders on the order of Bob Beamon's 29-ft. 2 1/2-in. jump 16 years ago in Mexico City are preferable to bland details such as afternoon heats and evening temperatures in the congested regimen of a meticulous man listening to his body. "Looking back," Lewis says, "I think one trouble was just the fact that I had been No. 1 in my events for three years, and there was nothing new to say about me. When you can't find something new, it's time...
When Zovirax becomes available in mid-February, there will be another restraint: price. A five-day regimen of the capsules will cost from $15 to $18; the tag for six months of use will be a hefty $360. Despite the costs and the limitations as a treatment, health officials are enthusiastic about the new form of acyclovir. "It is a very useful tool," says Mary Guinan, an associate director at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. "We welcome it as part of our armamentarium in our war against sexually transmitted diseases...
...software engineering degree. Started by An Wang of Wang Laboratories, Inc., the hugely successful computer company in nearby Lowell, the institute aims to educate a new breed of executive scientist who can create models of order in the individualistic and chaotic computer-software field. Wang believes that its integrated regimen of planning, design and testing of new systems, guided by written instructions, can be an answer. Set up in a former Marist Brothers seminary, the institute is an independent nonprofit school. Only ten of its 50 master's candidates come from Wang Labs; the others come from the likes...
Both swimmers and oarsmen are enthusiastic about their new regimen. Rower Geoffrey S. Gage '87 cites the new meditation program as "one of the reasons I wanted to row this year...
...that would reduce total fat intake from its current national level of about 40% of total calories to just 30%. Saturated fat-the type found mainly in meat and dairy products-should constitute no more than 10% of a person's daily diet, the panel said. The suggested regimen would limit cholesterol consumption to 250 to 300 mg a day (one large egg yolk contains...