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They are too young to know fear, but already have the work ethic of mature professionals; they have a young person's hopes and the obsessiveness of those that have perhaps not yet dreamed enough. Mere teenagers most of them, their racing bodies are rock hard, their eyes fixed on record times, Olympic titles and fantasies of domination. Before her big race on Sept. 18, in her darkened room, stopwatch in hand, American breaststroker Megan Quann, 16, visualized victory over world-record holder Penny Heyns of South Africa. "When I swim at practice it's her that...
...believe growing up in the Soviet sports system under the communist government played a big part in who I am today as a person and as an athlete. I learned things that will stay with me for the rest of my life." The Soviet system taught him a work ethic, says Krayzelburg; the American system gave him a chance to exploit it. "The thing about America is... anything is possible," he says. Especially a Soviet boy's turning into an American Olympic champion...
...impact on your springs, lakes and streams. Plus, we'll bring jobs and money to the community. They had just said the same thing in another part of Wisconsin and were run out of town. But they had learned nothing about the state's long-standing conservation ethic, or that lecturing Badgers on the environment is the p.r. equivalent of telling them how to make cheese...
...Kofi Annan's conviction that the world community has to respond to genocide and human tragedies must become a global ethic." ROBERT E. GRIFFIN Forty Fort...
...later since you were hooked up to the Internet at home? Did your parents start to go to bed later when they got television? Did their parents stay up listening to the radio, and their grandparents reading by electric light? Another part of the answer is the national work-ethic, which is closely linked to the ambition for ever-increasing prosperity. And another part of the answer is that we are embarrassed to admit that we need to sleep. If others can apparently manage with fewer hours of slumber, we feel it is an admission of weakness to claim...