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What's fashionable and formfitting on the beach this year? Answer: the rubber look. Robin Piccone, a California designer, has set off a sizzling fashion wave with bathing suits made of neoprene, the synthetic rubber from which scuba-diving wet suits are made. The material is both cool -- air circulates freely through the fabric's myriad pores -- and cosmetic, since it streamlines imperfections on otherwise delectable forms...
Activities directors from the various hotels crammed each day with a Club Med melange of crab races, scuba, and belly-flop and tanning contests. "Some of it's a little crazy," said Hilton Director Bill Parousis, smiling as he oversaw a two-mile-long line of students attempting to fashion the world's largest sand castle. "But it's keeping them out of trouble." One sign of the times: the fear of AIDS injected a note of caution to the usual sex-charged atmosphere of spring break. Comic Jay Leno drew cheers by noting that it was "National Condom Week...
...Also fruits and salads. He sips watered-down Crystal Light, but has an occasional glass of white wine. He runs briefly or bikes in the morning, takes a nap after lunch, goes to the body- building gym for an hour and a half in the afternoon. He swims and scuba dives -- strictly for pleasure. "It's not worth being healthy if you're going to be miserable," he muses. His moderated pace paid off. Dr. Kenneth Cooper, founder of the Institute for Aerobics Research in Dallas, first saw Remar in December 1985 and estimated his biological age as ten years...
WHEN I FIRST heard Harvard people bragging about their great diversity, I thought they were talking about some kind of graduate school for scuba divers. I soon discovered that what they were referring to was the rag-tag, motley, kaleidoscopic, crazy-quilt, incongruous mixture of humanity that gathers each year in Cambridge to pursue its lofty goals...
Moore says that one of his most memorable football moments was playing in the coldest game in NFL history--the Bengals vs. the San Diego Chargers in 60-degrees-below-zero Cincinnati weather. "That was an exercise in torture," says Moore. "I had my feet wrapped in plastic and scuba gloves on. The only consolation was that the San Diego guys were worse...