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...survival also depends on the physical and psychological resources hostages bring to the ordeal. Youth is an advantage in weathering physical hardships. More crucial, however, are a person's emotional and intellectual traits. "It really depends on what you came in with, what your life experience has been," stresses Bruce Laingen, who a decade ago was held hostage in Iran for 444 days. "Human beings are like tea bags. You don't know your own strength until you get into hot water...
Idiot proof and practically maintenance free, the tough cycles are the transportation equivalent of the first oversize Prince tennis racquet introduced in the 1970s. Both represent high-tech sports magic in accessible form, an Everyman's ticket to an activity usually ruled by youth and muscle. Behind the growing bike boom in America are all those adventurous teenagers reawakening in millions of overtaxed grownups. Frustrated with sore knees, joggers are turning to biking. Desk jockeys once intimidated by drop-handle 10-speeds can now handle as many as 21 gears on a bike that looks more like something the paper...
Businessmen like Baer worry less about adverse economic effects than about the psychological and social impact of going it alone. If Switzerland stays outside the E.C., they say, Swiss students will lack the Europe-wide educational opportunities offered other European youth; Swiss scientific and industrial research might suffer from not joining in bigger projects...
...things that saved James was sports," says his sixth-grade teacher John Tavella. The youth played point guard on the Bassick High School team, which ranked eighth in the U.S. during James' sophomore year. Basketball gave him the kind of attention that all youngsters crave. It also gave him something constructive to do with his time...
...James got involved with the Bridgeport chapter of a national program called Youth at Risk, which took youngsters to the Catskill Mountains for 10 summer days of arduous physical exercise and intense rap sessions designed to help them develop skills to cope with the pressures back on the street. Gerrod, who was also selected to go, left after just six days, but James stayed on and completed a follow-up program during the school year...