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...Kerry remains close to David Alston, who served on the swift boat that Kerry commanded in Vietnam and is now a minister in South Carolina. Supporters explain that Kerry has focused his political career mostly on security and foreign policy issues rather than on domestic matters that tend to concern African Americans because Edward Kennedy, the senior Massachusetts Senator, was already a leader on those matters...
...mythical characters, like Romulus and Remus or King Arthur, obscured in the mists of a distant past. Our founders are authentic historical figures about whom we know a great deal. Yet many of us insist on turning these real human beings into larger-than-life heroes against whom we tend to measure ourselves. They seem to be giants. So we wonder: Why don't we have Thomas Jeffersons today, and if we did, what would they have...
...Riding in groups] is one of the things that triathletes have a problem with [because] they tend to train alone,” Shoemaker said. “[Cyclists] hate triathletes because they tend to be so bad at riding a bike, but now I have the mind set that, well, I’m on the cycling team and I am a bike racer...
...think, if I don’t qualify for 2008, [2012] would be the next step,” Shoemaker said. “Endurance sports tend to favor more mature athletes, so as long as I stay healthy and somehow support myself financially I’ll be in this for a while...
...brief physiology lesson helps explain why a heat wave affects older people disproportionately. When a younger body warms up, the blood vessels expand and blood flows to the skin, dissipating heat. With age, blood vessels tend to thicken and stiffen, making them less able to expel heat. Sweating, another key way of giving off heat, also tends to diminish with age and with getting out of shape. "Basically, the elderly are vulnerable to heat both because they have greater difficulty in regulating their core temperature and because increased prevalence of diseases and medicines impair the ability to dissipate heat," says...