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...We’ve even tied for 16th before and had to swim off.”As the Jones’ talent grew in their late teens, the twins abandoned their second sport—cross-country—and focused on the prospect of recruitment. Despite their childhood fixation with local aquatic powerhouse Michigan, the allure of Cambridge changed the brothers’ thinking.“I feel like swimming is a good balance with academics here,” Bill explains. “I don’t know if I’d find...
Where do your own environmental interests come from? I grew up in rural South Dakota and I had a real Tom Sawyer childhood. We lived out in a remote part of the state on the Missouri River and my life was camping and hunting and fishing in a pristine environment. And that continued in my adult years when we lived in California and my wife and I did a lot of backpacking in the Sierras. But when we moved to L.A., smog became a fixed part of our lives. I remember taking my 2-year-old daughter...
...from the death shortly after birth of one of the seven children he fathered with his daughter. The ailing baby was not allowed the medical care it needed. But when he addressed the court on Monday, the accused spent more time talking about himself. "I had a very difficult childhood," Fritzl told the court, his voice trembling. "My mother didn't want me. I was beaten." His attorney, Rudolf Mayer, added that a "man who put so much effort into keeping two families cannot be called a monster," urging the jurors to "keep emotion out of this." (See pictures...
...your pet lives in Communist Russia. Hilarious (unless you once lived in Communist Russia). You could take a picture of your cat eating cat food and pretend it was dinnertime at the gulag. Or if you have an unusually small kitten, you could joke about robbing it of its childhood and training it as an Olympic gymnast. But where would one find a website dedicated to such a strange, esoteric joke? If only one existed...
...February 2009, Travis Jackson, a young banker, bought Bernanke's childhood home in South Carolina in a foreclosure auction. Bernanke's family had sold the home more than 10 years prior, but the latest owners lost the house after falling behind in payments...