Peace Corps

Although abloom with talent, a women's softball team languishes in Uzbekistan

Just after the season's first rain I laced up my brown, dusty tennis shoes and left the town of M'Baiki behind me as I ran up the laterite road into the rain forest of the Central African Republic. It was late...

HERSCHEL POWERSir:I truly enjoyed and was inspired by Terry Todd's article (My Body's Like an Army, Oct. 4). I have been fortunate enough to see Herschel Walker run track on several occasions, and as an aspiring...

His wife and fans had deserted him, Yé-yé Singer Johnny Hallyday, the French Elvis Presley, told a reporter last September. "My life is finished." Whereupon he downed a bottle of eau de cologne, dosed himself with...

Bernardo Uribe, 8, of Cali, Colombia, astonished his Peace Corps coaches when he ran the mile in an age-group meet in Cali after two weeks of workouts and won it in 6 minutes 23 seconds, smiling as he raced. Two days...