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...walls Brundage built were not strong enough to withstand the inevitable in a world where sport has become a preeminent form of entertainment. Amid raging debate, in 1981 the word amateur was stricken from the Olympic charter. Unable to kill the sacred calf itself, the I.O.C. turned over eligibility rules to the individual sports federations in 1987, and the transitions that followed were haphazard and often unfair...
...recent story line reflects some of the strips lighter humor. Boopsie, the airhead actress has been telling a charming, yet typical tale of all her reincarnations from "a plague-stricken calligrapher... from Gunbad-i-Qabus" to a victim of headhunters in the Malaysian Archipelago. From the highly political to the highly bizarre, Trudeau's Doonesbury is always entertaining and is definitely one of the best strips running in newspapers today...
Freud, of course, was right. Modern research indicates that the tendency to develop schizophrenia is hereditary. While the average child has a 1% chance of being stricken, the child of a schizophrenic parent faces 10 times those odds, and if both parents are affected, the likelihood jumps to 40%. But genes do not tell the whole story. Children of parents with schizophrenia raised by adoptive parents who don't have the illness have a somewhat reduced risk. In addition, if one identical twin has the disorder, the odds are just 50% that the other will. Clearly, environmental factors -- stress...
...unity must be paid. The best way to pay it would be for Germany to remain the industrial powerhouse of Europe, and that means workers willing to sacrifice for unity now as they did for recovery in the past. A robust, expanding economy can absorb the costs; a stricken, shrinking one cannot...
Student representatives of the Black-Korean Alliance raised more than $1600 in donations this week for the riot-stricken communities of Los Angeles...