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High tech equipment has taken the place of the magic sponge in Harvard's training room. The Dillon Field House facility is one of a handful in the country with its own X-ray machine and technician, Baker says. In addition, trainers can prescribe ultrasound and electrostimulating treatment or rehab work on a new $35,000 CYBEX isokinetic machine, which regulates resistance as athletes flex injured joints...
...baby strike. They have said, 'I'm not doing this myself.' " Certainly, many men still want to have children; but most are content to leave child raising to their wives. Still, some men are opting for childlessness too. Ed McCrary, 41, a recovering alcoholic who works for a rehab center in Charlotte, N.C., and his wife, also a recovering alcoholic, have decided against having children because the "chances are too high" that the baby too would become an alcoholic...
...These people are in great shape and aware of their diet, yet their faces look older because of sun exposure," observes Dr. Stephen Kurtin, a New York City dermatologist. Michael, 46, a lean Manhattan executive typifies the trend. Over the past six months he has undergone a grand-slam rehab: eye lift, face-lift and collagen shots to plump out his facial wrinkles. "I had a body by Michelangelo and face by Goya," he says. "No matter how much exercise I did, the face didn't respond...
Tsongas has the edge right now, with a late TV surge stressing his experience, the federal money he finagled to rehab downtown Lowell, and his familiarity with foreign policy and energy issues. But the experience line might not work against Ed Brooke...
Many such sub-contractors have achieved tangible success. The Neighborhood Family Care Center, one of only three licensed clinics in the country run by local citizens, serves as a model of innovative citizen participation. Model Cities Child Care has aided over a hundred community mothers. Homeowners Rehab In., a 'sub-contractor' that secures low interest loans to improve the condition of substandard houses, continues to grow...