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Somewhere south of Fredericksburg, Va., exhaustion obliterates caution. Turn off into a mercury-lit nightmare. Motels, shopping strips and truck stops lie scattered on the landscape. Out of the chaos of blinking signs and curbless entrances, a motel's canopy appears. The lobby seems assembled from unfinished lumber constructed to meet a wistful marketing illusion, something between motel and convention place. Members of a meeting of a fellowship for disabled Christians wander about, wearing their names on paper stickers. Hand over a plastic card for a room in which a television set flickers on with MTV and a radio offers...
...year ago Falwell stated that it was time for him to de-emphasize politics and stick closer to his base in Lynchburg, Va. That intention was deflected when he became emergency overlord of the scandal-pocked PTL ministry, only to quit in frustration last month. Now he will concentrate on building a new $30 million, 11,000-seat home for his Baptist church, increasing enrollment from 8,000 to 12,000 at his Liberty University and reinvigorating support for his troubled TV program...
Working with a staff of four at the project's headquarters in Big Island, Va., Horne and Buchanan have created a highly efficient distribution network. Farmers are instructed to send their rejects to the nearest food agency, and the project covers their expenses. "At 1 cents per serving in total cost, you can salvage a lot of food for very little money," says Buchanan. However, even with an annual budget of $632,000 (provided by religious organizations and individual contributors), the project still could not afford to ship 10 million lbs. of available potatoes last year...
...counts, physiologists caution ! that it is not the end-all and be-all. "You can have a good body-fat percentage and still be unfit," warns Dr. David Heber of the UCLA School of Medicine. Observes Exercise Physiologist Paul Davis of the Human Performance Center in Falls Church, Va.: "It's one-third of the fitness equation. The rest is muscular strength and flexibility and the aerobic capacity of the heart and lungs...
Similar despair was hitting small companies all over America. EZ Communications, a Fairfax, Va., broadcasting company with 15 radio stations, was expecting to raise $22 million in an initial public offering scheduled to take place the day after the market crash. Said Company President Alan Box: "These plans are now on hold for 60 days, six months, perhaps forever. We'll have to find other means of financing growth...