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...remaining regional hosts will depend on the outcome of conference tournaments. Either No. 7 LSU (53-10) of the SEC and No. 8 Southern Mississippi (54-10) of Conference USA will ultimately be the top team in the south, while the winner of the Big Ten tournament--either No. 14 Michigan (40-13-1) or No. 15 Iowa (42-12)--, will likely host the remaining regional...
...previous quarter's or even the previous year's returns. And with many funds driven by weighty tech holdings, last year's results may look brighter than those of the recent past. Of course, some funds may have thrived despite the latest downturn. But the NASD and the SEC are taking a hard look at what could be overly rosy...
...almost any standard, the best yardstick for measuring how steadily--if slowly--athletic performance has improved is the mile run. In 1900 the record for the mile was a comparatively sleepy 4 min. 12 sec. It wasn't until 1954 that Roger Bannister of Britain cracked the 4-min. mark, coming in six-tenths of a second under the charmed figure. In the half-century since, uncounted thousands of mile heats have been run, yet less than 17 additional seconds have been shaved off Bannister's record--about a third of a second per year...
...credit for the improvement goes mostly to better training and equipment, but shoes and diet can get only so good before they--and the runners--hit a wall. "It's conceivable the record could be 3 min. 30 sec. in 50 years," says American Olympic miler Steve Holman. "But bringing it down much more is a long way off." Scientists agree. In 1987 researchers at Canada's McGill University developed a mathematical model that predicted a world mile record of precisely 3 min. 29.84 sec...
Sometime in the next 30 years, according to the most recent forecast from the U.S. Geological Survey, a large portion of the San Francisco Bay Area will jump more than 3 ft. in less than 30 sec., shaking the ground for perhaps 100 miles and triggering an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.7. Bridges will buckle. Apartment buildings will pancake. The dorms at the University of California, Berkeley, will roll like barrels on a wave. Water, power and transportation lines will be cut. The subway that runs under the bay could be a death trap. By the time the dust...