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This time around, at the June Olympic trials, O'Brien had no problem with the pole vault, soaring to a height of 17 ft. 3/4 in., and despite less-than-par performances in the long jump and the 1,500 m, he finished first on the U.S. team, with 90 points to spare. This, say his coaches, is as it should be. "We don't even talk about losing," says Rick Sloan, who has coached O'Brien in the field events for the past six years. "People want him to get all excited about making the team, about getting that...
...upgrading schools would cost $11 billion. Clinton plans to pay for his $5 billion program with funds from the federal government's auctions of communications licenses, which have generated about $20 billion. But the Republican-led Congress is unlikely to welcome another federally-funded education program: at the height of last year's budget-balancing deals, Congress eliminated $100 million in grants that had been approved in 1994 for school repair. Says Pooley: "It would seem a long shot for the Republicans to embrace this one. But Clinton has been interested in infrastructure programs since he first proposed...
...quest begins with girlhood. "No one forgets adolescence. No one," she assures us. Certainly Friday has not forgotten hers. Apparently being tall in the South in the '50s was considered as gauche as being plump is in the supermodel '90s. Friday spent her teenage years in a height-eliminating, self-annihilating bended plie...
...most famous Olmec artifacts are 17 colossal stone heads, presumed to have been carved between 1200 B.C. and 900 B.C. Cut from blocks of volcanic basalt, the heads, which range in height from 5 ft. to 11 ft. and weigh as much as 20 tons, are generally thought to be portraits of rulers. Archaeologists still have not determined how the Olmec transported the basalt from quarries to various settlements as far as 80 miles away--and, in San Lorenzo, hoisted it to the top of a plateau some 150 ft. high. "It must have been an incredible engineering effort," Joralemon...
Which, let's face it, is a pretty fair description of Sergei Bubka. This, after all, is a man so good at what he does that he often starts vaulting at heights that have already defeated most of his rivals; a man who has jumped higher than any other human being (20 ft. 13/4 in.); a man who has dominated his field more ruthlessly and carved more world records for himself (35--18 indoors, 17 outdoors) than any other sportsman in history. But Bubka is more than simply the world's premier vaulter. He is an athlete...