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...started during the Lake Placid Olympics in '80, when I first saw a short segment on biathlon and it seemed like the coolest winter sport ever (skiing with a rifle on your back - come on!). After the '84 Sarajevo Games my friend Erik suggested that we train for the Calgary Olympics, and the idea caught on. We set about to educate ourselves, but in the pre-Internet 1980s it was tough to find any information about the sport, so we just made it up, happily skiing around the hills in southern Oregon with rifles on our backs, using the wrong...
Cell phones are about the coolest accessory in a preteen's pocket. But are kids who talk on cells taking more risks than adults? A study by British physicians and scientists suggests that they are. Last year's report by the Stewart Commission, a panel of experts convened by the British government to look into cell-phone use, found no direct indication that cell phones are harmful to kids. But the group uncovered enough evidence to urge that children be discouraged from using cell phones and that wireless companies stop marketing them specifically to kids...
...suppose that on some level, it's nice to see that the American populace isn't wholly seduced by slick advertising; that our presidential election has more meaning than an elementary school student council election, where the kid that became president was the one with the coolest posters, who broke the rules by passing out candy at recess...
...education-to-appreciation, involving the electricians who installed "Huru"'s spotlights. Originally frustrated by their laborious work over a "hunk of metal," the electricians, under Tucker's passionate tutelage, came to love the piece. "By the end of the night, one of the workers thought this was the coolest thing on campus," recalls Tucker. "He went into his truck to get his camera, and spent an entire roll of film on ['Huru']." Not surprisingly, the groundskeepers of UMass Boston have had some of the most profound exposure to the artwork and to Tucker's insight on it. David Lanchester...
RAPPED UP The duel of the two coolest rappers was decided. Jay-Z's new album The Dynasty: Roc la Familia 2000 outsold Outkast's same-day release, Stankonia...