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...interview at the Phoenix Swim Club, his home base. "For some, training becomes a ritual as important as the competition itself. You feel trapped. The line at the bottom of the pool haunts your dreams." Gary Hall Sr., who set 11 world records in his time and held his 21-month-old namesake aloft after making his third Olympic team in '76, isn't worried about his son. "At warm-up meets, he goes through the motions, and that freaks out a lot of coaches," says Hall Sr., now a Phoenix eye surgeon. "But when the chips are down...
...success of Leaving Las Vegas has now led to the posthumous publication of O'Brien's fourth novel, The Assault on Tony's (Grove Press; 215 pages; $21; the author's third novel, Stripper Lessons, is due from Grove next year). Here again, O'Brien immerses himself in the world of aggressively nonfunctioning alcoholics who live without meaningful allegiances to work or family...
Child labor not only ruins the future of working children but also damages the global economy. I am from a textile town and family in Germany, and have seen this industry decline here simply because we couldn't compete with children's wages in the Third World. In a global economy, companies will manufacture wherever wages are lowest. Now we need global unions to help establish and enforce the minimum wage and all other benefits workers should enjoy. Asian child labor and European unemployment are aspects of the same problem. It's an illusion to think otherwise. Neither difficult situation...
...additional income, it is unlikely the family would even survive, let alone send the working child to school and educate him. The causes of poverty in countries where children need to work are overpopulation and a high population-growth rate. Low-cost labor is a principal competitive advantage for Third World countries attempting to improve their standard of living. Focusing on working children alone without addressing the issue of lost family income or lost national competitive advantage creates the impression that this is one more nontariff trade barrier being put up by consuming countries. SHANKAR VAIDYANATHAN Madras, India...
Sprinter Frankie Fredericks of Namibia will be making a strong run for the title of "World's Fastest Human" at the Olympics. Last week in Helsinki he ran the third-fastest 100 m ever, in 9.87 sec., finishing ahead of world champion Donovan Bailey of Canada. Fredericks is also a contender in the 200, an event dominated by Michael Johnson. A few days earlier, Johnson won the 200 at the U.S. Olympic trials in 19.66 sec., breaking the 17-year-old world record...