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With Shulman out, each of the players in the final four singles slots had to move up one position on the ladder. The jump proved to be a little too much, as captain Martha Roberts, Meg Meyer, Debbie Kalish and Abby Meiselman all lost tough matches.
Roberts played an eminently uninspired match, losing to Deirdre O'Hallahan, 1-6, 1-6. The Quincy House senior ambivalently discussed her performance after it was all over: "I played well, but I didn't play well. I just wasn't using my head."
Roberts found that the men had been running for as long as ten years, averaging from 13.5 to 107 miles (22 to 173 km) a week; only one had ever complained of chest pains. Yet post-mortems revealed severe atherosclerosis-the buildup of plaque, or fatty deposits-in the major...
Roberts cautiously avoids drawing broader conclusions. He says that no one can say for sure if the men died because of running; on the contrary, they might have died anyway. In fact, he adds, their running may have had some beneficial effects: "I suspect they would have died earlier than...
There is still another factor to keep runners off stride. Cornell's Dr. Thomas Pickering, who has also studied HDL levels, reports that arrhythmias-abnormal heartbeat rhythms-occur more frequently during exercise and thus may be the cause of many unexplained deaths among runners. Says he: "A case could...