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Miller's prowess as a skier and his reputation as a hard nut were already known in the area when he was offered a spot in Carrabassett Valley Academy, a prep school in Maine for ski racers. But coaches there couldn't tame him. They kept trying to alter his so-called back-seat style, and he resisted fiercely. If you want to ski on your ass, they finally told him, become a snowboarder. In his book, Bode: Go Fast, Be Good, Have Fun, he claims that another local coach even sabotaged his chance for the junior Olympic team. Then...
...probing that six months earlier his patient had played the part of a man trapped in a cave, slowly starving to death. Although he wasn't aware of it, the actor was still stuck in the role. Grand decided he had to work with both the actor and his alter ego to help them get out of that cave and come back to life. "Actors go deep into their mind and their body to express a role," says Grand. "But being so finely tuned, it is also very easy for them to get blocked...
...some 40 seats in the Knesset, more than double the share of its nearest rivals in Labor and Likud. But with doctors indicating that there is only an extremely slim chance that the 77-year-old Sharon will resume his responsibilities, analysts expect that the political arithmetic will quickly alter, turning the March 28 election-once seen as a stroll for Sharon-into a wide-open race...
...explain how every aspect of every organism came to be, but each time scientists find new evidence-fossils of dinosaurs bearing feathers; fossils of the mammals whose descendants are whales; the molecular structure DNA that carries traits from one generation to the next; the mutations that can alter DNA to introduce new traits-the case for Darwin's theory has gotten stronger...
...five years ago. After a postelection cabinet reshuffle in November, Koizumi's newly appointed Foreign Affairs Minister, Taro Aso, said "Japan should first continue to build strong relations with America and, based on this, deepen relations with other Asian nations." That same month, the LDP drafted a plan to alter Article 9, the constitutional clause that famously renounces war, while Tokyo announced a sweeping realignment of the Japan-U.S. alliance, one that emphasized greater Japanese involvement in its own defense...