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ce helps
ipians
records
>ri nters faster man a
icrse. Female swim
houlders and swaggei
Weightlifters general-
:rgy in a single clean
ninate your house-
xir’s.
)rds are falling in
iydney 2000 Olympic
performances are (lie
mb genes, hard wort
y, science,
.dentists — physiob
ists, nutritionists, bio
n physicists — began
nowledge to athletes
acticing a sport fe
er enough to win.
of cyclists, scientist
aximum oxygen in-
ers per kilogram oi'
ate.
itch muscle cellsofa
rmine the use ofen-
adenosine triphos-
aildup of fatigue-in-
d.
iters, videotape and
eamline the trajecto-
ter's hoist or a gym-
ith more than 1,000
e training a year, how
cience improve an
: performance?
ent.
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ined less
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than hy
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— Guy C. Brown
British Biochemist
Vednesday, September 27, 2000
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: difference between
a silver. For now.
ching the upper lim-
formance? Are
es, in the words of
st Guy C. Brown,
le ... over ever-di
ns of seconds anc
icnce help Olympic
ignificantly?
lys. In a study pub-
nal The Sciences,
>ut the steadily im-
inces of athletes
e record time in the
run has improved
ids every quarter-
orically have out-
, but the gap is nar-
n UCLA study,
the women would
ially in endurance 1
larathon, by 2035.
ors of The Sciences
run the 10,000-me-
i faster than men.
?ht soon reach the
less. Brown argues,
ting factor for ath-;
; ability to pump
ygenated blood
ood vessels,
ush more blood
an athlete could
de a bicycle faster
said.
hletic improve-
rentury probably
itific and techno-;
etter equipment,’
nts such as more
'en genetic engi-.
■acting muscles,;
rption and faster -
> athletic perfor-;
nined less by the t
of the athlete,” 1
ly technological
olving judgment.
he line between j
d what is artifi- J
no clear answers;
questions Brown <
iletes. Too much f
nplicating factors.;
lost elite athletes <
ce or routine be-;
dually gets the!
howsky said. “It |
iarsal.”'
Bush
ready for
election
AUSTIN (AP) — George W.
Bush jokes that the problem with
engaging in mock debates with Sen.
Judd Gregg is that often “he wins.”
The New Hampshire Republi
can has been playing the role of
Democrat A1 Gore in practice ses
sions with the Texas governor.
And while Bush likes to give the
impression he is not putting much
time or energy into such re
hearsals, the preparation has been
underway for months.
One sparring session between
Bush and Gregg — at Bush’s
ranch in Crawford, Texas, during
the Democratic convention last
month — found its way to the
Gore campaign. Gore’s camp
turned the tape over to the FBI,
which is investigating.
With the first debate a week
away on Oct. 3, Bush was head
ing to Austin on Wednesday for a
practice session. And at least one
full 90-minute session with a
moderator and formal trappings
are planned for the weekend.
There’s a danger in rehearsing
too much. Bush says. “Either
you’re ready or you’re not ready,”
he says. He thinks he is.
Some Republicans privately
have voiced concern that Bush is
not taking debate preparation seri
ously enough, suggesting he
chafes at practice sessions and tries
to get out of them when he can.
Gregg “has
managed to cap
ture the conde
scending air that
Gore uses in
debates...”
— Karen Hughes
Bush communications director
Still, the Texas governor has
been poring over briefing books
given him by staff.
Bush says he’s trying to famil
iarize himself with the specifics of
Gore's various proposals and also
is refreshing himself with details
of his own proposals, especially
those he doesn’t refer to often on
the campaign trail.
The lean, reticent Gregg
looks nothing like Gore. But, ac
cording to Bush campaign offi
cials, he has an uncanny ability
to sound like him.
“I told him, ’You’re good,”’
said Bush communications director
Karen Hughes, who has been with
him during all debate rehearsals.
Gregg “has managed to capture
the condescending air that Gore
uses in debates,” said Hughes,
“never missing an opportunity to
get in a dig at the vice president.”
Bush at first balked at the
schedule for three debates out
lined by a bipartisan commission
that has overseen presidential de
bates since 1988.
He agreed initially to only one,
challenging Gore to meet him in
less-formal settings for the other
two — in particular, joint appear
ances on NBC’s “Meet the Press”
and on CNN’s “Larry King Live.”
Gore wouldnt take the bait, and
Bush eventually agreed to the
schedule set forth by the commis
sion. Gore partisans accused Bush
of trying to duck the debates.
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Congressmen ask DOE to release plant info
HOUSTON (AP) — Two Texas congress
man have asked the U.S. Department of Ener
gy to release information concerning two South
Texas chemical plants brief y used to extract
uranium to determine whether residents were
unknowingly exposed to radioactive materials.
U.S. Reps. Nick Lampson, D-Beaumont,
and Rep. Ken Bentsen, D-Houston, have
asked for records of the plants run by the now-
defunct Texas City Chemicals plant between
1952 and 1956 and the former Pasadena
Chemical Corp. from 1951 to 1952, the Hous
ton Chronicle reported in Tuesday’s editions.
The chemical plants were briefly test beds
for extracting uranium from phosphate ore,
which was used at the plants to manufacture
fertilizer. The plants each extracted at least 50
pounds of uranium.
“The workers in those plants deserve the
same consideration as those in silos,” Bentsen
said. “They were part and parcel of the U.S. de
fense system during the Cold War. The gov
ernment should honor its commitment to ser
vice people, but also to workers.”
Lampson has also asked his fellow con
gressmen to pass a special compensation bill
for workers at the private plants in Texas City
and Pasadena and those who have suffered or
died from health problems caused by exposure
to radioactive materials.
Officials from the Department of Energy said
they do not know how many people may have
been exposed to radioactive or hazardous mate
rial from the plants or how waste was disposed.
State environmental and health officials,
however, said they have inspected the sites nu
merous times in the past 20 years and believe
there is no radioactive material remaining.
The call for an investigation into the
plants’ work was partially sparked by local
union officials concerned about what became
of the waste and residents’ exposure to air
borne dust from the operations.
A 1977 survey of the Texas City site, which
is now a large tract of undeveloped land owned
by BP Amoco, showed above-normal levels of
radiation in the soil. But the survey found no
conclusive link to nuclear fuel processing.
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