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...females, coy behavior makes sense if it elicits some sign of good genes or commitment to nurturing. Sociobiologists believe estrus disappeared in humans as a female strategy to cement monogamy: a year-round sexual attractiveness helped keep mates from wandering off. Menopause may have evolved to turn aging females away from breeding and toward protecting their genetic investment by caring for grandchildren...
...years, the gap between rhetoric and reality in international amateur athletics has bred hypocrisy and, periodically, scandal. While demanding lip service to an impracticable ideal, the amateur system has left American athletes to fend for themselves in a degrading world of under-the-table payoffs and over-the-table handouts. To support themselves during the rigors of year-round training, many Olympians have accepted deals from manufacturers and fees for appearing in track and field meets, hiding their earnings from Olympic, Amateur Athletic Union and international sports federation officials. In the process, many have concealed their incomes from the Internal...
...four, Walsh kicked-off her career by learning how to swim. At age seven she began swimming competitively and three years later she started swimming year-round...
...swimmers do not continue to swim competitively forever. The exhausting regimen, which involves swimming 10,000-15,000 yards a day is rigorous for anyone. So after training year-round for 11 of her 21 years, Walsh retired from this taxing routine...
...Pennsylvania, anticipates sales of up to 100 domes in its area for a total of some $3 million this year. Cathedralite Domes, in Aptos, Calif., reports that sales of kits are running at 60 a month (average price: $6,500). The company expects to gross between $3 million and $5 million this year and is planning to expand overseas. Like other dome makers, the company sells mostly to people who intend to use them as primary, year-round homes. Since a competent handyman can erect a house himself, with muscle power from family and friends, a spacious, three-bedroom dome...