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They called it the "Miracle on the Mat" when Rulon Gardner of Wyoming defeated Russia's Alexander Karelin for Olympic gold in Greco-Roman wrestling earlier this year. Gardner, who had only enjoyed moderate success in his career, beat a man who hadn't been scored upon in ten years...
...expanding job market can be attributed to several factors, including an increasing prevalence of retirements of older workers and departures of young staff members seeking other job opportunities, according to CERI Director Philip D. Gardner...
...searches for new employees, companies look for a prospective employee's community involvement, understanding of the relationship between business and technology and Internet experience, Gardner told the Chronicle...
...benefits can go beyond fun. Ryan Cooper, a seventh-grader in Gardner, Kans., used to get teased by classmates for being shy and overweight. During his four years with grade-school PE teacher KaCee Chambers, whom he credits with encouraging and motivating him, he went from not being able to do a single pull-up to setting the school record. Says Ryan, who also lost 10% of his body fat: "I don't take anything from anyone now!" In Naperville, Lawler recently detected unusually high cholesterol levels in one three-sport middle school athlete, who got medical attention and altered...
...punctured by the voter can baffle the counting machines. Those problems led Wisconsin to ban the cards in the 1990s, just as New Hampshire had done in 1986. In 1988, a report by the National Bureau of Standards, a federal agency, recommended that punch cards be abandoned everywhere. William Gardner, the New Hampshire secretary of state, recalls a test run in which just five cards were put through a counting machine three times--and produced three different counts. "It was not the most comforting feeling when you had to do a recount with punch cards," says Gardner. "We often...