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...Mission Viejo, Calif., has a lofty level of Olympic consciousness. Greg Louganis used to work out at the local multipool swimming complex. The bicycle races of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics ran on its roads. So acute is Mission Viejo's awareness of sports that keeping athletic talent a secret is impossible. Dale Herring, 53, went out for his usual walk and jog with his wife Kathryn one morning a few years ago; on impulse, he decided to sprint around a curve, something he had not done in 30 years. Inevitably, he was spotted. The observer, a collegiate coach, urged...
...growth. If not for the perseverance of some key Republicans, there would be no thought at all in the White House of making economic policy more market oriented. Our economy will stay on its rising trajectory despite Clinton, Greenspan, Rubin and Summers, not because of them. KEVIN MCLAUGHLIN Mission Viejo, Calif...
DIED. FLORENCE GRIFFITH JOYNER, 38, incandescent American sprinter and winner of three gold medals at the 1988 Seoul Summer Olympics; of undetermined causes; in Mission Viejo, Calif. (see Eulogy, below...
...Susan Wynn, an allergist who practices in Fort Worth, Texas, first noticed the problem at the beginning of February. Dr. William Berger of Mission Viejo, Calif., picked up on it two weeks later. That was just about when Dr. Donald Pulver of Rochester, N.Y., realized, as he puts it, that "everybody, including my wife, was complaining about itchy eyes, stuffy nose, dry cough--the classic signs of an allergy attack." Classic, except that the allergy season wasn't due to begin for at least a month...
Then the pollen counts drifted in. More than 200 particles per cu m in Rochester, twice the normal high for early spring. In Mission Viejo the count was 171, and the olive trees hadn't even bloomed. "I had seven emergency patients in one day," says Wynn. "That's worse than at the peak of ragweed season...