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...race walking. If the event were held at the Sydney Mall and restricted to the over-60 set, it might be fun to watch. But instead it's young people jogging and pretending to walk. And that looks really, really stupid. Even Debbi Lawrence, a world-record holder in the grueling 1,500 m, knows her sport is a little weird. "It looks funny, it feels funny, and it wasn't an Olympic sport when I started doing it," she says. Which was probably at 13 months. She adds, however, "If we stop comparing it with other sports and stop...
Beta-blockers have also been around for some time and have a good safety record. Their action isn't completely understood, but much of the benefit seems to come from reducing the heart rate. Patients suffering from poor circulation or respiratory disease, however, should look to other drugs...
...hype to call Felix Savon's boxing record Herculean: 266 wins, nine losses; six world amateur championships since 1986 and gold medals in the past two Olympics. You'd think a Cuban fighter who has owned the ring like that for the past 15 years could retire to a beach hammock with a tall glass of Havana Club and a Cohiba...
DEBT AGAIN The government last week reported that the July savings rate fell to a record low: -0.2% of disposable income. That means we're continuing to spend more than we make, a disturbing trend to economists but a boost to debt-counseling organizations like Myvesta.org named for the Roman goddess of the hearth. Also reachable by the less classical name savemyass.com...
Even though a record 1.26 million high school students took the SAT this year, more and more colleges are heeding Wellstone's call. This year Mount Holyoke became the sixth elite liberal-arts college in the past five years to stop requiring the SAT for admission. The Florida state-university system has joined the University of Texas in basing most acceptances on class rank, regardless of SAT scores, as a response to the state-mandated end to affirmative action. A record 280 colleges and universities--many of them smaller schools--will ignore the SAT in admissions this fall for some...