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...hour of vigorous squash or racquet ball is followed by a 70-minute workout on the Nautilus weight-training equipment and a brisk four-mile run. A hundred sit-ups on a steep slant board, then 60 leg lifts, are topped off by 45 minutes of aerobics, propelled by pulse-pounding rock music. A muscle-stretching, gut-wrenching hour of calisthenics is succeeded by a karate class or a lengthy swim...
...nutty and, in contemplation, forms a splendid fruitcake of the hu man spirit. Mighty aerial voyages are undertaken in planes as fragile as moths, and transatlantic crossings are made in sailboats only marginally longer than their pilots. There are specialists in climbing frozen waterfalls and skiing slopes too steep to stand on, and in exploring underwater, with scuba gear, caves so deep that helium must be mixed with the oxygen that is breathed, to forestall nitrogen narcosis. A couple of canoeists have just lined their craft up the Grand Canyon and portaged the Rockies. An unemployed actress named Julie Ridge...
...local companies have already applied to state public service agencies for steep rate increases. In Texas, Southwestern Bell wants to boost rates by $1.2 billion, claiming that the AT&T breakup will cut its revenues 45% while reducing operating expenses only 15%. In California, Pacific Telephone & Telegraph is seeking an increase of $1.2 billion, which would double the current monthly charge of $7 a household. Some observers, like FCC Chairman Mark Fowler, consider the requests opportunistic. Said he: "I suspect a hefty portion of these proposed increases may be an effort by the local companies to use the dramatic changes...
...decaying into formalism, especially when the original form was antiformalist. Nowadays Japanese department stores carry rows of cases displaying tea bowls and caddies; new ones-never mind the old, which may cost more than a suburban house-bear price tags of $15,000. If one suggests that this is steep for a new teacup, however dense with sabi and wabi it may be, one is told that such objects are signed on the box by a noted living tea master. This imprimatur, a fabulously profitable extension of Marcel Duchamp's solitary act of declaring a urinal a work...
...profitmaking companies. The number has grown more than 40% since 1977, even as the overall number of U.S. hospitals has declined about 10%, to some 6,900. At present, publicly held companies own 1,045 facilities and manage another 283. Private enterprise was drawn to the business primarily by steep increases in expenditures for medical care, especially for Medicare and Medicaid, which totaled $86.2 billion last year...