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...Those who see sport as the pursuit of victory at any cost won't be bothered by some of the habits that have crept into Ponting's teams. Sport soars, however, when the participants show qualities incidental to the goal of winning - like respect for opponents and fans. The exuberance with which Australian batsmen are celebrating on reaching their centuries has become absurd. Much fuss was made over Michael Slater's reaction to making a hundred at Lord's in 1993. But that display, which included kissing the Australian crest on his helmet, was subdued compared to the fits...
...women half-pipe snowboarders almost missed their final runs--the most important moment of their athletic lives--because they had crept away to an off-limits slope to sneak in some extra rides. Hannah Teter, 19, and Gretchen Bleiler, 24, returned in time to take home gold and silver, respectively. In the finals of the snowboard cross, a new, Roller-Derby-on-snow Olympic event in which four boarders twist and fly down a mountain to the finish, favorite Seth Wescott, 29, should have panicked, trailing Slovakia's Radoslav Zidek late in the race. (It's the Olympics...
...first year, though it slid back up to 29% by the sixth year. The other, so-called control group received printed material on dietary guidelines but no other help on healthy eating. The fat content of their diets was 35% after one year and crept up to 37% after six years-and they gained a little weight to boot. (The intervention group lost weight or stayed the same...
...some unlikely sources. One of the biggest is the so-called Alternative Minimum Tax, which was designed many years ago to keep the rich from using deductions and other loopholes to get away with paying too little tax. But because of inflation, millions of middle-class Americans have now crept into the AMT zone-especially in high-tax states where state and local taxes are not deductible under the AMT-meaning that they'll have to pay additional taxes. (The IRS has a calculator to let you figure...
Halfway through the Harvard women’s hockey team’s matchup with rival Brown, a sense that the game would end scoreless surely crept into the minds of many of the 631 fans who came out to Bright Hockey Center.The story of the 0-0 final could be read after two periods in the special teams play, as the Crimson (10-7-3, 7-3-3 ECAC) continued with its struggles to score on the power play. Meanwhile, it did not allow a single shot during its penalty kill.As regulation came to a close, the Crimson drew...