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...them. But motherhood is a sentence without parole-have some guilt with your chicken soup; eat, eat!-and Bombeck and her fans have no trouble understanding each other. "I could move up to Alaska," she says, "where the nearest neighbor is 300 miles away, get there by dog sled, walk into the cabin, pour a cup of coffee and then hear her say, 'These kids are driving me crazy...
Trouble was, Jesson was over in the Klondike region of Canada, hundreds of miles removed from the strike. He cast about for transportation, found sled dogs in scarce supply and finally bought a bicycle. He made it to Nome in a month, along the way passing an astonished Indian, who, never having encountered a bike, exclaimed, "White man, he set down, walk like hell...
...rafted 3,700 miles down the Amazon River, walked the 1,750-mile length of Japan, and traveled 7,500 miles by dogsled from Greenland to Alaska, a harrowing, 18-month journey during which he was forced to kill several of his ailing sled dogs for food. Narrow escapes were plentiful. In 1978, when he became the first man to reach the North Pole by trekking alone across the frozen Arctic Ocean, a polar bear raided his camp and mauled his sleeping...
...says one Taiwan delegate. Undeterred, Wu Chung-chou, 27, and his brother Wu Dien-cheng, 25, keep in shape running and lifting weights and come to race in key European competitions. Their major complaint: lack of up-to-date equipment. They drive an old Italian-made two-man sled. "The equipment of all the participants should be the same," said the younger Wu. "But for a country without a bobsled course we are content with our results." They placed 26th...
...really. The East Germans, who have dominated bobsledding for the past several years, had quietly made some innovations of their own, notably a highly stable independent front suspension on a fairly conventional-looking sled, and their superb No. 2 team of Wolfgang Hoppe and Dietmar Schauerhammer took the gold medal Saturday. Another East German bob took the silver medal. The Soviets and one of their cigarskis won the bronze, however. For their team and all the others (including the Americans, who dragged in a dreary 15th), the next move was back to the drawing board. It is a good...