Word: excel
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People are born with different proportions of the two fiber types, and athletes tend to excel in events for which they have the best muscle endowment. Sprinters, such as track star Carl Lewis and swimmer Dana Torres, have muscles containing a large majority of fast-twitch fibers. So, surprisingly, do shot putters and weight lifters, who need not only strength but power too. "They have to move a heavy weight very quickly," explains U.S. Olympic Training Center physiologist Steve Fleck. "Weight lifters in the clean-and-jerk event can move as fast as a sprinter." Distance runners and swimmers...
From the agony of the Vietnam War to the exhilarating fall of the Berlin Wall, a scrapbook of their work could serve as a comprehensive index to the most momentous events of the past quarter-century. Says editor-in-chief Jason McManus: "Church and Magnuson excel at the most demanding newsmagazine art: writing fast news covers. Masses of information must be quickly absorbed, mentally structured, and the relevant facts, anecdotes and quotes smoothly mortised into place while writing...
...PLACE IS CHOCKABLOCK with fountains, almost all of them officially described as new-age outdoor-air-conditioning systems. Water gushes and gurgles almost everywhere. Architect Nicholas Grimshaw's pavilion for the United Kingdom, a fine, robust example of the high-tech style at which the British excel, is the grandest, sleekest Expo aquatecture of all: the whole plate-glass facade, 60 ft. high and 235 ft. long, is a waterfall. A lovely, quirkier glass-wall waterfall, the work of the New York architecture firm SITE, defines a promenade along one of the Expo avenues. For almost a quarter- mile...
...think that he's really working extraordinarily hard to do an excel- lent job and I think that he is reallycommitted to the kinds of ideas and ideals that alot of people over there share," Rudenstine said...
Still, Marin has a bright outlook for the future. "We'll only lose two seniors next year, and no starters," he says. "The guys have been playing together for three years. If ever we have the opportunity to excel, it's next year...