scientific american special edition - 2000 vol 11 no3 - building the elite athlete

... press). Copyright 2000 Scientific American, Inc. BUILDING THE ELITE ATHLETE 26 SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN PRESENTS THE CHOSEN ONE: Megan Still (right), discovered in an Australian search for pro- spective elite athletes, ... against perfor- mance enhancement greatly influence how the broader Olympic movement regards the effort. Copyright 2000 Scientific American, Inc. B...

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... National Weather Service? 30 Scientific American Presents TWISTER BEEPER: AccuWeather sends severe- weather updates to word-message pagers. ACCUWEATHER.COM Copyright 2000 Scientific American, Inc. 2 OUR ... ships, satellites, ground-based gauges and other TOP-OF -THE- LINE EQUIPMENT: The Doppler radar tower (above) near Washington Dulles Air- port is one of the workhorses intende...

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... 1999. AND THE WINNER IS 114 -year-old Eva Morris of Eng- land, who is currently the oldest person alive, accord- ing to the Guinness Book of Records. THE SENTINEL Copyright 2000 Scientific American, ... called the U.S. Bur- den of Disease and Injury, by the Harvard School of Pub- lic Health, found a staggering 40-year gap between the longest-lived Americans —Asian -America...

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... on the islands, up to 90 percent of their radi- ation exposure would come from the ce- sium in the local produce. Almost all the rest of their dosage would come from the cesium in the soil. On the ... nitrogen narcosis in the dark underneath the stern of the wreck of the fa- mous Japanese battleship Naga- to. The 216-meter-long flag- ship of the Imperial Navy dur- ing...

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... represent- ed. Some normally derive from the outermost layer (the ecto- derm), others from the innermost or middle layers (the endo- derm or mesoderm). This variety offered further evidence of the cells’ ... true “off -the- shelf” organs a reality. 12 SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN PRESENTS Copyright 1999 Scientific American, Inc. YOUR NEW BODY YOUR BIONIC FUTURE 13 tains a space for the...

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... on the Solar System SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN Volume 13 Number 3 C2 SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN 28 4 COPYRIGHT 2003 SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, INC. 28 SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN Updated from the Fall 1998 issue of Scientific ... of un- known origin that are preferentially oriented north-south, northeast-southwest and northwest-southeast. These linea- ments are called the Mercurian grid. One expl...

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... including the pres- ence or absence of nearby radiation-emitting stars. On the other hand, astronomer David F. Gray of the Univer- sity of Western Ontario in Canada has challenged the existence of the ... rotate —59 Earth-days—and the peri- od required for it to complete a circuit of the sun —88 Earth-days. Mercury ap- pears locked into this 2:3 ratio of rota- tional to revoluti...

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... and sexual be- havior of 1 5- to 19-year-olds. The survey The female condom’s manufac- turer, the Female Health Com- pany, reports that the plastic vaginal sheath is 79 to 95 per- cent effective ... finan- cially responsible for their proge- ny—and the 1995 Clinton adminis- tration effort to design federal pro- grams that include and promote the involvement of fathers. Devel- o...

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... met the criteria suf - ciently well: linguistic, logical-mathe- matical, musical, spatial, bodily-kines- thetic (as exemplified by athletes, dancers and other physical performers), interper- sonal ... soldier- ing in the nine specialties studied, among them infantry, military police and medical specialist. Research in the civilian sector has revealed the same pat- tern. Furthermore,...

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