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...Black-and-White boat, which will consist of bow Jillian Buriak, two-seat Martha Rogers, three Joanna Bench, four Vicky Keane, five Betsy McCagg, six Mary McCagg, seven Karen Weltchek, stroke Juliet Thompson, and cox Leigh Weiss, will race first today, followed by the junior varsity eights, the novice fours and the novice eights...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Crew Delayed; National Title is on Hold | 6/6/1988 | See Source »

...happens, the body cannot convert sugar into the energy that cells need to function. The cells starve, and the unconverted sugar builds up in the bloodstream, damaging the fragile lining of blood vessels. Complications associated with Type 1 diabetes include heart and kidney disease, poor circulation, eye problems and stroke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Stop That Germ! | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

...visualized winning this 1000 times," varsity heavyweight stroke John Amory said. "I imagined feeling happy, but it doesn't come close to how I feel...

Author: By Kristin Olson, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Thinking Crew From Morning 'Til Night | 5/16/1988 | See Source »

During the race, the coxswain will describe certain scenarios for his rowers to visualize. For instance, a coxswain will tell his crew to picture an opposing stroke being run over and put in the hospital...

Author: By Kristin Olson, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Thinking Crew From Morning 'Til Night | 5/16/1988 | See Source »

...Such a stroke of honesty is alone enough to commend this good little British picture. But it is almost the least of its virtues. The mobsters force an alcoholic computer engineer named Hiller (played with a wonderfully watery passivity by Bernard Hill) to act as their "bellman," or alarm-system neutralizer. His only virtue is his devotion to his stepson (Kieran O'Brien), who has no name but the one we impute to him: True. He is a wise, sober child, spunky and devoted to the man who takes responsibility for him when both are deserted by the child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dour Caper BELLMAN AND TRUE | 5/16/1988 | See Source »

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