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Eventually, no amount of rocket-jock calm could hide the fact that Mir had become a deathtrap. Once parts of the glinting International Space Station went aloft, it was clear there was no need to keep the old outpost in orbit. So now, more than 15 years after it was launched on what was to have been a three-year flight, Mir will splash into history, its mission finished but its story only beginning to be told...
Raised in Manchester, Mass., Lentz was the consummate jock during his time at St. John's Prep, a regional school in Danvers, Mass. His senior year, Lentz was a tailback on the nationally-ranked football team, starred on a hockey squad that was in the Super Eight and led the best baseball team in the state. He was always playing something, and the powers that be in baseball noticed...
When Harvard College created a lottery in 1995 to assign students to the upperclass Houses, it sought to end the exclusivity that had turned some of its Houses into jock dorms and others into elite enclaves...
...knew it had to be Rod." Paige graduated in 1955 and took a series of college coaching jobs. He got his master's and doctorate in physical education at Indiana University, with a thesis on the response time of football linemen. That might have branded Paige a jock among educators in some places, but it confirmed him as a native speaker when he arrived in football-crazed Texas 30 years...
...knew it had to be Rod." Paige graduated in 1955 and took a series of college coaching jobs. He got his master's and doctorate in physical education at Indiana University, with a thesis on the response time of football linemen. That might have branded Paige a jock among educators in some places, but it confirmed him as a native speaker when he arrived in football-crazed Texas 30 years...