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Schubert, too, was skeptical at the beginning. Potential world champions don't just show up. Of all sports, swimming is the most measured, timed, predictable. There aren't supposed be surprises. Yet here was a big surprise. Schubert, too, became a fast convert. He offered a scholarship. "This was a totally different level of competition for me," Krayzelburg says. "When I showed up, I was the fifth-fastest backstroker on the team. I wasn't eligible for my first year, so I only could swim in the little, 25-meter pool every day, while the team practiced...
...immediately a defibrillator convert, believing every workplace and public space should have one and train its employees in its use. Once we get out the machines and start practicing, I am even more convinced. The machine decides whether the victim needs a shock and speaks its instructions aloud. It is so effective and easy to use that even the actor playing the ditsy fry cook could save a life with it. And now I could...
...also covers something less glorious: the persistence of performance-enhancing drug use among athletes. The TIME team in Sydney will include our (conveniently) Australian-born senior editor Belinda Luscombe, correspondent Sally B. Donnelly, staff writer Joel Stein and assistant picture editor Jessica Taraski. Associate art director D.W. Pine will convert their work into sumptuous layouts. The staff of TIME Australia, our South Pacific edition, is already in full Olympic mode. With these Games, Wulf, our sports sage, can add a new chapter to her college thesis, which studied TIME coverage of the Olympics since World War II. She traces...
...Glamour Workshop. It wasn't until I allowed them to take a picture of my armpit and felt Carmen Libido raise my arm, inhale and shout "A+!!" that my gaydar blipped. When Shaboom Libido started videotaping and said, "This is Joel, our straight man, whom we are going to convert or at least use before this weekend is over," I realized these guys were gayer than the 1890s...
...immediately a defibrillator convert, believing every workplace and public space should have one and train its employees in its use. Once we get out the machines and start practicing, I am even more convinced. The machine decides whether the victim needs a shock and speaks its instructions aloud. It is so effective and easy to use that even the actor playing the ditsy fry cook could save a life with it. And now I could...