Word: sport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hayes is also a prospective softball player, but Wentzell says the shortstop will see how things go before committing herself to the spring sport. Also on the diamond, he's looking to "hard-hitting infielder" Kristin Habley, of Westport, Conn...
...track and field were captured by black Americans. This feat is testimony that talent combined with motivation and opportunity can prevail against enormous odds. Nevertheless, as a black American I feel we must constantly remind young blacks that regardless of the achievements of Valerie Briscoe-Hooks and Carl Lewis, sport is an extra curricular activity. To abandon academics in favor of sports is as risky as betting the house rent on the lottery...
Neither a smoker nor a drinker, Duarte has had scant time for his favorite sport of basketball. For exercise, he often takes a stroll after lunch around the presidential compound accompanied by his omnipresent bodyguards. "Nappo," as friends call him, dabbles at landscape painting, but he seeks relaxation mainly in talking politics with cronies or with Inés, his wife of 35 years. Sometimes he seeks out one of his six grown children for political advice: Alejandro, 33, is mayor of San Salvador, a job the elder Duarte held for six years...
...alive again." Regarding a permanent site for the Olympics, some proponents of that old idea are smiling and saying that they may have a new alternative to Greece. International Olympic Committee President Juan Antonio Samaranch did not get into that, but he did observe that baseball is the Olympic sport he would be in favor of adding next. Ueberroth seemed to agree. -By Tom Callahan...
Hackers, says Turkle, are social misfits who construct digital Utopias, hang out in pancake houses and admire the recursive art of M.C. Escher. At M.I.T their nerdy abdication from society is "sport death"-programming for up to 30 hours without sleep before "crashing." Alex, a dedicated hacker, describes it as feeling "totally telepathic with the computer...