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...Swimming Federation's International Center for Aquatic Research in Colorado Springs, more than 10,000 swimmers have been tested on a swimming treadmill called a flume, in which their oxygen intake is measured and evaluated as they exercise. Sessions in the flume showed that Dara Torres, a specialist in the 100-m freestyle, needed to enhance her anaerobic system with more sprint repetitions. Such evaluations are also helping athletes settle on the right amount of training. Swimmers reach a peak after 12 weeks of intensive work and then need a tapering-off period...
...Barcelona, the daily work of seven photographers will be reviewed by associate picture editor MaryAnne Golon, Paris-based picture editor Barbara Nagelsmith and picture researcher Mary Worrell Bousquette. Imaging specialist Kin Wah Lam will transmit the edited selections to picture editor Michele Stephenson and assistant picture editors Karen Zakrison and Eleanor Taylor. A new Eastman Kodak 2035 scanner will be used to send pictures to us here at headquarters in a mere 45 seconds. The editors will sift through these low- resolution "first drafts" and pick the photos to be sent via satellite to them in publishable form...
...Rent Control Board permitted a raise in the rent in March as an inflation adjustment, according to Buddy Packer, general adjustment specialist for the board. Packer said the decision to allow the rent increase wasreached after standard procedure...
...their enemies, will act as the first lines of offense when the mudslinging starts in earnest. Surprisingly, some "oppo" operatives do talk regularly to their rivals by telephone. What could they possibly have to discuss? "I call to ridicule their pathetic attempts to attack us," says one oppo specialist. "Then we trade insults." Nothing like a little destructive criticism to get the juices flowing...
Jack Kemp, George Bush's disgruntled Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, is one name being pushed hard in Perot circles. New York leveraged-buyout specialist Theodore Forstmann, a Kemp presidential fund raiser in 1988, is trying to broker a marriage between Kemp and Perot. Some of Kemp's political advisers argue that running with Perot represents Kemp's best chance to be elected President himself in 1996. Others counsel caution -- Kemp's favored political style -- contending that bolting the g.o.p. would permanently brand the supply-side conservative a pariah. Kemp's probable reluctance illustrates Perot's quandary in finding...