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...national teams in the former Soviet Union. "A teenager as Olympic champion - that's the Australian dream," he told TIME, recounting the examples of John Konrads in 1960 and Shane Gould in 1972. Touretski believes swimming is entrenched in the country's culture. Strong local clubs, rather than colleges, breed promising youngsters, he says, the best of whom go to sports institutes as teenagers. Government funding also supports home-based athletes (such as Thorpe) and their coaches (such as Doug Frost, Thorpe's mentor). A benign climate, particularly in Sydney and Brisbane, offers hundreds of training venues year-round. Supportive...
...once every generation, out of hundreds of thousands of young hopefuls, along comes a talent like Thorpe. Not only does he have the oversized body (1.95 m) that is perfect for power aquatics; other swimmers believe he is also the hardest-working athlete of a select breed. "I'm very fortunate to have what I have, and really it is a gift," Thorpe said. "And I'm very thankful for that." Thorpe's long, graceful stroke and explosive kick were on show in the 400-meter freestyle. He was a full second ahead at the first turn and swam...
...idealistic corner of the computer world, there is a breed of benign engineers called open-source software programmers. They believe in sharing their work rather than selling it. Yet last month when one of these programmers, Miguel de Icaza, 27, announced the creation of the Gnome Foundation to bring open-source software to the masses, he was flanked by such giant corporate partners as Sun Microsystems, Compaq and IBM. That makes de Icaza a type that's rarer still: part software hippie handing flowers to the corporate police, part digital-age powerhouse...
...BREED OF SINGING...
...long ago, this breed of single mom was considered eccentric at best, man hating and antifamily at worst. A woman whose husband had died or whose boyfriend had run off could be regarded as a victim, but one who deliberately set out to have a child without a father was a threat to traditional family values. Who can forget Vice President Dan Quayle's attack on TV single mom Murphy Brown eight years ago? Well, it seems many people have. With increasing numbers of middle-class women parenting alone, the stigma of being a single mother is fading...