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...Wolf speculates that women come to a realization of their bisexuality later than men do because women tend to be more physically affectionate with each other throughout their lives and this closeness camouflages the sexual desire. Women also seem to show more sexual flexibility than men and switch their sexual focus more often, he adds...
Maybe engineers and designers should get Olympic medals. In the pole vault, heights jumped 30% with the switch from bamboo to fiber-glass and carbon- composite poles. Tracks have been resurfaced to give runners more bounce and speed, and pools have been designed to dampen wave action that buffets swimmers. Some athletes fear their events could become contests of equipment and facilities, but as any coach would admit, it still takes a great swimmer to bring out the best in a great pool...
...hits the water. "While I'm swimming, I sing songs in my mind," he says. His career is following an upbeat tune. An avid admirer of Mark Spitz, the Russian youth won the Soviet junior championship as a backstroker at 14. Since 1990, when his coach persuaded him to switch to freestyle, he has been nearly unbeatable. He has defeated his main rival, Matt Biondi, in their last six meetings. "At first I thought that he didn't take me seriously," says the younger swimmer. But Biondi takes him seriously now -- as does everybody else...
...actual mechanism is less important than the reasons for what White House aides are already calling "the big switch." Chief among the problems is Bush himself: the President is an undisciplined campaigner who is prone to sloppy mistakes without a full-time minder. He continues to insist, for example, that Americans are wrong to think the economy is sputtering, even though his own Administration's statistics prove them right and him wrong. "Bob Teeter, Fred Malek and Sam Skinner are all too nice," said an official, referring respectively to Bush's campaign managers and chief of staff. "We need somebody...
...clad Wrigley Field in Chicago? Think again, for this is 1992, when the courts play a bigger role in baseball than they do in tennis. The Cubs are suing Vincent, contending that he overstepped his powers to act in "the best interests of baseball" by ordering the team to switch divisions against its wishes. The real motivation of the Chicago Tribune Co., which owns the Cubs, is (surprise!) money: WGN, the Tribune-owned superstation that shows the Cubs games, is worried that more night games on the West Coast will mean lower TV ratings. True, the Atlanta Braves, with their...