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...went out to Bondi Beach for the women's beach volleyball final. It was one of only two cloudy days during the whole Olympics, but I'll tell you, Bondi made its own sunshine. The waves were up and the surfers were out - hey, did you hear two surfers got eaten by sharks down here last week? - and the volleyball venue was rocking. A couple of Aussies had made it to the final, so you can imagine. The great old swimmer Dawn Fraser came out for the match and she took the mike and led the crowd in the "Ozzie...
...popping, strutting leader of coach John Smith's Handling Speed Intelligently team, a stable of hip-hop sprinters and sundry others who train at UCLA's Drake Stadium and hang together in the off-hours. Four of the HSI guys spent the Olympics at a beach house in Coogee. Greene was out there, and so were Jon Drummond, Curtis Johnson and Ato Boldon. This last guy is from Trinidad & Tobago, and I find this interesting. See, the point is: During an Olympics an American star is bunking with a principal rival from another country. You could say HSI has taken...
...Crimson should have a relatively easier time against San Diego State (3-8), which finally snapped a six-game losing streak by downing Long Beach State on Sunday...
Against the advice of more experienced colleagues who said Asians wouldn't eat bread or cheese, Heinecke opened the first Pizza Hut in Asia in 1980 in the beach resort of Pattaya, southeast of Bangkok. "It was a daring move," says Kitti Naktisuwan, an analyst with ABN AMRO Asia Securities. It was also the right move at the right time. Thais flocked to sample such customized wares as tom yum (spicy soup) pizza, and Heinecke, who became a Thai citizen in 1991, now has 116 stores taking about 95% of the country's $50 million-a-year pizza market...
...Wilkins, principal partner at the Education Trust, a left-center research organization, says her college-professor parents, who are sending her younger sister to Yale this fall, have calculated that under Gore's plan, they would not have to rent out their Delaware beach house as often next summer. "But if they were making less than $21,000, there would be nothing for them," she argues. "Low-income kids get the short end of the stick...