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...mistakes than his rivals he can't explain. He mentions better nerves, good concentration, light weight training and stamina, which he gets from jogging with his wife Anke, also a shooter. "The better your stamina is, the easier you can compensate the adrenaline output, to quiet your pulse and breath," he notes. A shooter must get rid of the adrenaline with almost no movement. Schumann had a lot of adrenaline to get rid of during a 2 1/2-year winning streak that ended in 1997. "Don't remind me of that drama," he sighs. "Every competition was like starting...
...Like the Energizer Bunny, the 74-year-old Castro kept pounding away. When he paused for breath, he might have heard people snoring or noticed the woman who woke with a start, forgot where she was and tried to get up and leave. No such luck...
...disarming - in more ways than one - habit of signing autographs for just about anyone who asks. So when he finished a late-night press conference Thursday, he found himself mobbed by journalists and officials seeking his John Hancock on any available piece of paper. Simply to catch his breath, he was finally forced to retreat into a private meeting room off the Security Council chamber. As Putin and Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov made it through the door, his security men blocked anyone else from entering. Left outside among the disappointed autograph seekers were Russia's high-powered U.N. ambassador Sergey...
...COMMUNITY COLLEGE THE PLACE TO TRAIN FOR DOT-COM JOBS Community colleges are getting a breath of new life from the booming information economy. Enrollment in associate-degree programs has been flat for years, but postgraduates are flocking to the local colleges for technology training, which currently rivals health care-industry courses as the most popular...
Locker 13 is a formulaic combination of junior-high athletics and supernatural intimations. The whole tale seems as overheated as its young hero Luke Greene's reaction when he learns he has been assigned the unlucky locker: "My breath caught in my throat. I started to choke...