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...purpose as a boxer ("He broke me down and rebuilt me"). Tyson was an apt pupil: he obsessively studied old films of boxing legends, learned the spiritual side of the warrior mentality and, he says, "restrained myself from having sex for about five years." He tore through the amateur ranks, knocking out one opponent in a record eight seconds, and was heavyweight champ before...
...Guys and Dolls once ruled, times are changing. For one thing, the spring high school musical these days is increasingly likely to be, quite literally, High School Musical - the Disney Channel hit that is now one of the most produced high school shows and has had nearly 2,500 amateur productions since September 2006. But while stalwarts like Grease and Bye Bye Birdie still top the schools' most-popular list (Little Shop of Horrors was actually No. 1 for 2007), a growing number of high schools are turning to more adventurous fare for their theatrical rite of spring: big, adult...
...SHARKS 1 in 280 million Odds of being killed by a shark. About six people die in shark attacks annually; this year's count includes amateur triathlete David Martin, 66, who was attacked by a great white near San Diego on April 25 26 million Number of sharks killed annually by humans...
...million Odds of being killed by a shark. About six people die in shark attacks annually; this year's count includes amateur triathlete David Martin, 66, who was attacked by a great white near San Diego on April...
This thought was not entirely revelatory. My friends had long been subjected to lengthy descriptions of the restaurants I would some day open. They had heard the amateur, now discarded plans of my initial dreaming: the sushi bar built over a tank of live fish (how postmodern!); the dumpling restaurant with a twist, where mac and cheese or duck l’orange would be served up in crisp wonton wrappers or savory shumai shells (titled, for its brief reign in theoretical existence, “Dim Sumthing Else”). A few lucky listeners had even become privy...