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...really the most exciting thing that ever happened to me up to that time - us rushing around skiing. I found I was reasonably energetic and I could rush around and make snow balls, whatever. That was really the start of my enthusiasm for snow and ice and mountains in general. For a few years I skied whenever I could...
Nicknamed "Bowman the Showman" for his crowd-pleasing exuberance on the ice, the California native was a talented skater whose party-boy lifestyle and drug use off the ice got in the way of the discipline needed to train as a world-class athlete. Prior to his first Olympic appearance in 1998, Bowman checked himself into the Betty Ford Clinic to treat his drug habit, one of at least two times he received treatment for his addiction. "I've told myself I'd be more disciplined," he once said. "It just never seems to work that...
...recalls Carroll. Having botched two jump combinations already, Bowman ad-libbed the remainder of his performance, throwing in unplanned jumps in a frenetic attempt to boost his standings. In the strictly conscribed world of competitive figure skating, in which every note of music and each body position on the ice is choreographed to the last detail, such improvisation is anathema, if not disastrous. But it was classic Bowman. He said afterwards: "I had an attack, a strategy, the heart, soul and aggressiveness to challenge." It worked, earning him a bronze medal. It did not, however, make Carroll happy. After years...
Something similar may have happened to the newborn universe as it expanded and cooled from trillions of degrees to millions to thousands. While this was happening, it went through several phase transitions. Flaws in the fabric of space, similar to the ice streaks, could have remained, acting as gravitational seeds for the growth of galaxies...
...fresh winds across the prairie, Mike Huckabee and Barack Obama rising fast and blowing away row upon row of tidy assumptions and dead certainties. As that front moved east, the weather changed; spring, the season of rebirth, came to New Hampshire. Snowbanks softened, toppling the yard signs; the Ice Queen melted. By nightfall, John McCain and Hillary Clinton, two veterans once left for dead, had sprung back to life...