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...night he acquired a bottle of Canadian whiskey, and somehow we persuaded three girls from the tennis camp to join us in his dorm room. Not bothering with glassware, we passed the bottle around until it was empty. I remember eating some watermelon Daly had bought. The evening ended when I regurgitated the whiskey and melon onto one of the girls. Daly and another player on the Razorback golf team deposited me into the well of a shower, where I fell into a dead sleep...
...screen. Schools have contributed, with shrinking budgets causing more and more of them to slash physical-education programs. In 1991, only 42% of high school students participated in daily phys ed - already a troublingly low figure. Today that number is 25% or less. (See pictures of the college dorm's evolution...
...very sporty boy." Training is often dull. In his first year at the school, the 14-year-old has been allowed to work on only one major aspect of archery: the release of the bowstring. But Ding isn't complaining. The Qingdao school has nice dorm rooms, helps students get into college and employs coaches who understand the virtues of rest and recovery time...
...propaganda director assures us that the kids practice for only a couple of hours a day. But students I speak to without a minder present say they train for at least five hours. None of the dorm rooms I visit have any textbooks--strange for a school that the propaganda director tells me is "mostly for academics, with sports training just as a spare-time activity." Wang Ting, a 15-year-old runner, looks at me blankly when I ask what she does during her time off. "I run, and I sleep," she replies. "That...
...positive contributions to society. Moreover, advances from the field now underpin almost every aspect of our lives—including the digital cameras you and your parents are no doubt clicking at this Commencement. When you go to post the files on Facebook, a company conceived in a Harvard dorm room, consider that few had heard of social networking at the start of your freshman year...