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...women's National Championships at Princeton in June, and once those 32 had arrived at the Olympic Camp at Harvard, seat racing had been used to trim the number to 11. As the crowds thinned out, the pressure had grown less and less intense; no longer was there a swarm of women to speculate about, to compare yourself to, to try to rank in lists. Now everyone knew more or less where they stood. It only remained to eliminate one more person, and the ten women who would represent the United States at the World Rowing Championships in Nottingham, England...
...trickling into villages like tiny Bombar-dopolis, where they sit in eerie silence in the dirt courtyards and dusty streets hoping to find food and waiting for rain. In the village of Desforges, five miles to the north, children, too debilitated to brush away the flies and insects that swarm over their bodies, sit for hours outside mud and stick huts without moving or speaking. Until recently, many have eaten nothing but mangoes; their arms and legs are covered with running sores that never heal. Monique is a six-year-old boy shorter than a properly developed child half...
...Night Moves, Moseby's inability to finish anything off makes sense. It's night that's moving--an inexplicable rumbling in the distance, and Moseby's delusion is that he's moving a knight in a chess game, check, check, check. But in fact the checkerboard is a great swarm, with no one heading anywhere. Moseby hasn't got a chance of wrestling this free-for-all into the neat conformity he likes: once his blocks are set up, the whole construct just tumbles down again...
...York City's bush-league Downing Stadium to see the Cosmos beat the Toronto Metros, 2-0. In Boston, at week's end, Pelé's supporters proved to be too enthusiastic. While the Cosmos were playing a 1-1 tie with the Boston Minutemen, a swarm of fans rushed onto the field and knocked their idol down. This excessive outpouring of affection caused a leg injury, said to be minor, to the man who might become the savior of American soccer...
...native Brazil. Now they infest at least 133 million acres in nine Southern states from Texas to North Carolina and are slowly spreading northward. They live in open areas (farm land, pastures, even lawns) where they build 3-ft-high mounds that hinder mowers, plows and other machinery. They swarm over farm animals or people who stumble over the mounds, stinging them viciously. The ants' venom, which can cause coma in allergic individuals, produces the painful burning sensation that gives the ants their name. Despite the undeniable menace of the fire ant, Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz last month announced...