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...Mondale strategy is to force Reagan off his high road and into a debate on specific issues. Says Senior Adviser Richard Leone: "We want this race to be a toe-to-toe contest. We want to pin Reagan down. If we can't debate him, we want to stay as close to him as possible." Yet the era of good feeling that Reagan is riding partly reflects a public appreciation of his leadership in certain substantive areas of policy. Indeed, the contest will involve an unusually stark ideological clash over the course that Reagan has set and its chances...
...light signaling her turn came on. In the tense silence that fell, one could hear her feet drumming the runway, then she leaped onto the springboard and pushed her handspring high toward the banner-draped rafters. She twisted, turned and landed without having to move so much as a toe to keep her balance. Neither Retton nor Karolyi nor the crowd needed a judge to tell them it was perfect. Without waiting for the 10 to flash, Retton ran to the barricades for a quick embrace with Karolyi, then, strutting the pigeon-toed linebacker's walk that more than...
...could admit, "This is more fun than beating Dallas." The great O.J. Simpson, 37, handed off to the great Michael Baily, 7, who has cerebral palsy. Lenore Nicholson-Woodward, 69, a bona fide "little old lady from Pasadena," almost overran the escort vehicles with her impatient heel-and-toe style. Back down the road in Louisville, Muhammad Ali had carried his torch too. In his book The Greatest...
...electrode into the consciousness." In any case, it is the cortex that coordinates such highly sophisticated responses to pain as screaming "Ouch!" and rubbing the sore toe...
...Toe rubbing, it seems, has its purpose, and one can get considerable relief by massaging or patting a sore area, just as one can relieve itching by scratching or slapping. In 1965 two researchers, Patrick Wall and Ronald Melzack, devised a brilliant theory to explain this effect: the gate-control theory of pain. According to them, only a limited amount...