Word: cinderella
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...victories, like Senegal's 1-0 win over the French in an opening match that set the tourney's roller-coaster tone, and the U.S.'s 3-2 defeat of Portugal that helped the Americans advance to the quarterfinals for the first time since 1930. And there were the Cinderella marches of host countries Japan and Korea, both of whom went further than anyone imagined. Maybe all these surprises seduced us briefly into believing in football's parallel universe, where Davids topple Goliaths. But by the end of World Cup 2002, the giants were engaged in the final battle...
...CINDERELLA SYNDROME It may be good for the soul, but researchers say housework doesn't do much for the heart. University of Bristol scientists studied 2,341 British women ages 60 to 79 and found that heavy housework--vacuuming, washing windows and floors--had no effect on their health or weight. Women who spent 21/2 hours a week doing such chores may have burned extra calories but were neither less obese nor had lower resting heart rates than those who did no cleaning at all. --By Sora Song...
DIED. BILL PEET, 87, Disney artist and writer whose vivid stories were instrumental in defining the studio; in Studio City, Calif. Second only to Walt Disney in his talent for cartoon storytelling, Peet wrote the screenplay for 101 Dalmatians, created Dumbo and contributed to Fantasia, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty. After retiring from animation in the mid-1960s, he wrote award-winning children's books...
...gorgeous. I wanted to be her—I wanted to be the fairy princess with the crown and the big puffy white dress. It’s a little girl’s dream—like you want to be a ballerina or you want to be Cinderella. I wanted to be that girl when I was four. I came home, I practiced the bow. And of course, I fell over myself because I was four years old. Every year I would practice the bow and all the girls who were queen were my role models...
Harvard Coach Kathy Delaney-Smith, nationally renowned for leading the 1998 Harvard team to an upset of top-seeded Stanford, couldn’t script another Cinderella story this season...