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...Learning to row is the first step," Huntsman says. "We work in the tanks for about three weeks, teaching the girls the basics of the stroke. It's difficult, because the motion is awkward...
Many of the women find that learning the stroke involves a great deal of concentration. But, according to one team member, the strokes are taught very gradually. "The stroke is broken up into its simplest parts, and gradual development makes it easier," she says...
...stroke of midnight next Monday, a 101-gun salute will mark the independence of the Transkei, a Denmark-sized territory on the eastern coast of South Africa. There will be tribal dancing, fireworks, feasting and bonfires, as there were to mark the birth of more than 40 African nations that have become independent in the past two decades. The difference is that in the eyes of most of the world, the independence of the Transkei- the first of the nine black tribal homelands that South Africa intends to set up as separate states-is a device by which Pretoria hopes...
Died. Gilbert Ryle, 76, British philosopher and editor of the journal Mind (1948-71); after a stroke; in Whitby, England. Ryle, who taught at Oxford for 44 years, was a prolific writer with a fresh, piquant style. A linguistic analyst in the tradition of Wittgenstein and A. J. Ayer, he maintained that the true role of philosophy was to clarify, by closely examining the ways in which words were used. In his best-known work, The Concept of Mind (1949), Ryle held that the mind should not be viewed as operating separately from the body, like a "ghost...
...short-haul transportation for commuters, students, the elderly and fresh-air lovers out for a spin-not to mention the suburban housewife who is reluctant to drive a gas-guzzling, nine-passenger station wagon two miles for a can of tuna. Since it whirs along on a two-stroke minimotor with less horsepower than a power mower, goes no faster than 30 m.p.h. and can be propelled by the pedals alone, the moped is clearly no motorcycle. It might best be called the effortless bike...