Word: leaper
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With Shepard's death, time seemed less elastic than we thought it was. The old outleaping moment of the race to the moon, science and technology's heroic counterpoint to the '60s' rage and mess, was now, as embodied in the first young all-American leaper, dead of leukemia at the age of 74. You may rescind the laws of gravity but not of mortality...
More impressively, Gyorffy's assault on the Harvard record books continued. Earlier in the season, the freshman leaper had assumed the title of the most dominant female jumper in Harvard history--breaking the Harvard record in both the high jump and triple jump...
...Coach always told us number 22 was a leaper. He came over with the ball. I just stuck my hands up and punched the ball," Santos said. "Luckily, someone recovered...
...Pennsylvania State University, sports-science researcher John Shea has developed the "Leaper Beeper" for divers. The system uses sensors connected to a laptop computer to measure elements of an athlete's dive; during practice, a beeping noise code tells the diver in the air how high he has jumped and how far down he pushed the diving board. "We want to give the diver immediate and precise information about the dive so a change can be made for the next attempt," says Shea...