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...reach the high potential she has. Morawski quickly realized that Mills had to switch to events that would better suit her condition.Morawski didn’t allow Mills to swim the individual medleys and instead let her swim freestyle or backstroke.At the beginning of the season, Mills continued to combat the effects of her injury, as she was once forced to start a 500-yard freestyle race in the water instead of the on the diving blocks.Even with this setback, Mills dominated the race and broke the five-minute barrier that eludes many full-strength swimmers. She didn?...
Real change, however, won’t come through a rally alone. Rather, we need student organizations on campus to teach us the unique aspects of each culture so that we can have the tools to deal with the discrimination. Cultural events like Eastbound do more to combat intolerance than a weeklong rally, because instead of preaching to us about a pervasive problem, they inspire us to find common ground and appreciate diversity...
...Agency (EPA) to move unilaterally on regulating greenhouse gases, without the need for congressional action. That process, however, is long and subject to court challenge without a legislative mandate. "It appears that the Administration is letting Congress take the lead while the EPA moves forward with welcome steps to combat global warming, like the proposed rules this week to create a registry for carbon-dioxide emissions," says John Walke, clear-air director of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). "The EPA has been aggressive...
...These challenges are just as Obama defines them: the soaring health-care costs that disadvantage American companies abroad, the difficulty young people—the lifeblood of any economy—have affording higher education, and, most drastically, the threat that a failure to meaningfully combat global warming will pose to both the planet and human lives. As Rosabeth Moss Kanter, a Harvard Business School professor, wrote for Politico in response to Krauthammer’s piece, Obama is “not only a brilliant strategist, he is a brilliant analyst of America, understanding all the factors that contribute...
...economic tsunami continues to rage across the planet, the near universal refrain has been that joint action is needed to pull us out of the crisis. But when it comes to stimulus spending, the U.S. and Europe have taken different paths, jeopardizing hopes of a united front to combat the downturn...