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Henry ("Hank") Aaron holds the major league career home-run record (755) and works for the Atlanta Braves organization...
...creatine often get lumped together in press accounts (like this one) but are two very different compounds. Androstenedione (andro, for short) is an honest-to-goodness steroid and a precursor to testosterone. It is banned by the National Football League and the International Olympic Committee but not by Major League Baseball. Athletes take the supplement in the hope that their body will convert it into testosterone and help them develop bigger muscles during training...
...dual-citizenship and avoid winding up in jail. Boarding at a family friend's Chinese restaurant in Seattle, Lee got a job teaching the Wing Chun style of martial arts that he had learned in Hong Kong. In 1964, at a tournament in Long Beach, Calif.--the first major American demonstration of kung fu--Lee, an unknown, ripped through black belt Dan Inosanto so quickly that Inosanto asked to be his student...
...would not come true. If Vietnam is being imitated today, it is primarily as a model for how a society forged in insurrection now seeks to be actively integrated into the global market. Nor has Guevara's uncompromising, unrealistic style of struggle, or his ethical absolutism, prevailed. The major revolutions of the past quarter-century (South Africa, Iran, the Philippines, Nicaragua), not to mention the peaceful transitions to democracy in Latin America, East Asia and the communist world, have all entailed negotiations with former adversaries, a give and take that could not be farther from Che's unyielding demand...
BOBBY JONES He was the embodiment of the true sportsman, a modest fellow whose noble consideration for his opponents was equaled only by the cruel ease with which he vanquished them. Jones won an unprecedented (and still unmatched) 13 major golf championships in a brief seven years, culminating in his 1930 sweep of all four majors, the only Grand Slam in the game's history. And then, still an amateur and determined to remain one, he retired, at 28. From that day forward, Jones played competitively only once a year--at the tournament he invented on the course...