Word: diver
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...current study is the most comprehensive long-term evaluation of the outcome of the technique," said Harvard Medical School assistant professor of medicine Dr. Daniel Diver, the paper's senior author. "Now we know it can provide enduring benefit...
...look at the Constructivist designs for agitprop events -- the red panels of Natan Altman's bold transformation of the huge Palace Square in Leningrad for the first birthday of the October Revolution, or the steel-truss tribune designed by Lissitzky to carry Lenin forward like a high diver over the heads of a crowd -- without a feeling of exhilaration: this, not the bureaucratic and murderous reality of institutional Marxism, is what it was meant to be like, that now closed chapter in Russian history...
There was no shortage of winners as the Olympics loudspeakers began playing national anthems last week: Fu Mingxia, the poised Chinese diver who was not even born when El Loco began hitting home runs for Cuba; the Maldivian swimmer who became the first in his country's Olympic history not to finish last (in part because that position was already occupied by another Maldivian swimmer...
...last week, however, NBC has treated us to such gems as the Chinese diver who is the "most Westernized" member of his team--"He smiles a lot, he laughs a lot," marvelleld the commentator...
...Pennsylvania State University, sports-science researcher John Shea has developed the "Leaper Beeper" for divers. The system uses sensors connected to a laptop computer to measure elements of an athlete's dive; during practice, a beeping noise code tells the diver in the air how high he has jumped and how far down he pushed the diving board. "We want to give the diver immediate and precise information about the dive so a change can be made for the next attempt," says Shea...