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...terms of what those opportunities might be, find out what Chan wrote after the jump...
When he’s not powering through p-sets, Brito is putting 25 hours a week into his long jump. The star athlete at Malden High School walked on to Harvard’s track and field team freshman year. An impressive list of injuries has accumulated over his college career, including pulled hamstrings, a flipped disk in his lower back, and tendonitis in both knees, but he refuses to stop competing, and he still feels that the sport has contributed to his personal growth...
...Single Ladies” by Beyoncé, and “Down” by Jay Sean to propel them, attendees witnessed an impromptu dance battle. (Editor's note: Hell yes, you young, supple, eager freshman show-offs. Bring it on.) More after the jump...
...killed. One night in April 2008, Beyene found herself lying in the cold sand of Egypt's vast Sinai desert, nervously eyeing the barbed-wired fence that separated her from her destination: Israel. Only a few hundred meters away, the fence along the border was low enough to jump. But Beyene, who was there with her three children and a group of some 20 asylum seekers from Eritrea, Darfur and southern Sudan, knew that before they reached the other side they would have to get past the armed Egyptian border police...
...group approached the fence, recalls Beyene, she heard warning shouts from Egyptian border guards and then shots. Terrified, she kept running and jumped over the fence with her youngest son, 7-year-old Mulugeta. As she turned around, she saw that 21-year-old Iskender and his 3-year-old sibling Rosa, whom he was carrying on his back, had been shot. "I shouted for Iskender to jump over the fence and he did. That's when the Israeli soldiers took them to hospital. After four days, my son died," Beyene says. Rosa, who reveals a bullet-wound scar...