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Duckman, a high jumper, long jumper and javelin thrower, has been slowed down from time to time but never stopped. As a young man growing up in Bayonne, N.J., he could toss a football 65 yds. He briefly hoped for a career in professional baseball, but he didn't perform well under big-time pressure. Instead he worked days in the local General Motors plant, studied for a bachelor's degree at night and became a schoolteacher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In The Long Run | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

After retiring in 1985 to Daytona Beach, Fla., he focused his attention again on sports, concentrating first on the long jump and the high jump. His arm remained as strong as his legs. "I can still throw a softball 35 yds.," he says. So five years ago, he decided to test his arm with the javelin. "I was terrible," he says. "Accurate, but no length." He trained for jumping at a local high school, but for understandable liability reasons, the school did not offer javelin instruction. So Duckman watched videotapes of the best javelin throwers in the world and slowed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In The Long Run | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

...scared to death. We had life jackets on and life rings, but the life rings took off when we jumped, about 15 ft. into the water from the port side. We grabbed a broomstick to stay together and tried to paddle toward the raft, which was 300 yds. away. It was obvious that wouldn't work, and we knew we had to conserve our energy. Unlike the guys in the raft, we had an emergency locator beacon so the Coast Guard could find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Adrift in Floyd: It Was Like Watching Hope Float Away | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

RETIRING. BARRY SANDERS, 31, Detroit Lions running back. Sanders was 1,458 yds. short of breaking Walter Payton's NFL career rushing record. Yet strained dealings with his team drove the 1988 Heisman Trophy winner with a $36 million contract to head to London instead of training camp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Aug. 9, 1999 | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

Ramirez haunts the railroads. His first known Texas victim, Dr. Claudia Benton, was found 100 yds. from railroad tracks in West University Place, an affluent community in Houston. She had been sexually assaulted. All the others lived near or were found along the web of tracks surrounding Houston, one of which leads to San Antonio. Ramirez, says Cox, has a "fascination" for train travel. Ramirez is 38 or 39, and was first arrested when he tried to cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally. But he returned again and again. Ingenious enough to be issued a voter-registration card and driver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death Rides the Rails | 6/28/1999 | See Source »

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