Athletes compete in standard track and field events with the aid of prosthetic legs, sighted running-mates or in wheelchairs.
Students can apply via the standard track, emphasizing grades and scores, but they can also apply via a track emphasizing their special gifts or contributions.
The explanation for why every men's world record at every standard track distance belongs to an athlete of African descent may turn out to be purely sociological -- hard work, a dearth of opportunities elsewhere.
WHEN the United States entered World War I in 1917, its railroad system had just undergone three decades of torrid expansion after the adoption of a standard track width.
Here too, music labels argue that they should be paid more for an over-the-air download than a standard track bought over the internet, where the wholesale price is about 70 cents.
My seventh-grade math teacher, an otherwise lovely man, called each of his students up to his desk one by one in order to write a "1" (for the honors track) or "2" (for the standard track) on the school's official math placement forms.
