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...bottom of one of the holes and discovered that despite the intermittent downpours that sweep the region, the earth was relatively dry. The plastic tarps and the trenches were designed to carry almost all rainfall out of this patch of forest. As a result?and according to plan?the Brazil nut, tropical cedar and other great trees of the affected zone were beginning to suffer from thirst, even as rainwater doused the leafy forest canopy...
...were at their best. During team introductions, I guess two or three people booed the Brazilians. I didn't even hear it, but the announcer did, so he said, "Now, now - we're sportsmen here and we don't boo. Let's try that again. Give it up for Brazil!" And the crowd gave it up hugely. Imagine that at Atlanta...
...There's most of the Dream Team and the women's basketball team; there's Marion Jones; there's Maurice Greene... need we go on? And it's not just the U.S. either. A substantial number of the medals snagged by countries as diverse as Britain and Brazil, Cuba and Canada, France and Jamaica and a lot more, were won by athletes of African origins. But hey, who's counting...
...force in the pool. Four years ago, European nations won 11 gold and a total of 38 medals; this time Europe secured 14 gold, 36 medals in total. The shift among countries around the world is more interesting: Past powers such as Hungary, Germany, the Russian Federation, Canada and Brazil have been replaced by newcomers Italy, Romania, Ukraine and Sweden. China did not win a swimming medal at these Games. Hinting at one reason for their success, Romania's Mocanu and Ukraine's Klochkova spoke of the lack of public pressure on athletes from countries where swimming...
...collision between African American, West Indian and Puerto Rican cultures, with the understanding that we are all African people. My point is that no matter where we were enslaved in the Western Hemisphere, be it Jamaica, Brazil or South Carolina, we as Black people held on to modes of speech, dance movements, and attitudes (what some call "cool") that formed the foundation for hip-hop's emergence in an African-American context...