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Which news item from the shadow world of basketball stardom was more poignant: Magic Johnson's announcement that he had contracted the HIV virus, or Wilt Chamberlain's boast, just days earlier, that he has had sex with more than 20,000 women...
Which news item from the shadow world of basketball stardom was more poignant: Magic Johnson's announcement that he had contracted the HIV virus, or Wilt Chamberlain's boast, just days earlier, that he has had sex with more than 20,000 women...
...presence of sexually available women on the sidelines of sport is nothing new. After all, Babe Ruth's appetite for women was as insatiable as his lust for food and booze. In his newly published memoir, A View from Above, Hall of Fame center Wilt Chamberlain boasts of having slept with 20,000 women -- an average of 1.4 a day for 40 years...
...gunshot or dynamite blast, can damage hearing instantly by tearing the tissue in the delicate inner ear. Sustained noise from a jackhammer or disco music is more insidious. The prolonged barrage flattens the tiny hair cells in the inner ear that transmit sound to the nerves. As the hairs wilt, people often feel a fullness or pressure in the ears or a buzzing or ringing, known as tinnitus...
Post-secondary institutions are feeling both an economic and a demographic squeeze. As the stock and bond markets continue to wilt, schools can no longer expect robust returns on their endowments, so they are struggling to refurbish their capital. Meantime, the days of bulging classrooms are long gone. The 1965-75 baby bust led to a 10% dip in the number of college-age students in the 1980s; the head count will plummet a further 25% by the mid-1990s. The ability of institutions to simply crank up tuition and fees has also hit a ceiling. Last spring Princeton scaled...