Word: mats
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...After I lost that match, I pretty much knew that my career would end the following day,” El-Hayek said. “I went out and wrestled my last two matches and tried to leave everything on the mat...
...More than 30 years later, Ngoc thinks of those shriveled trees as he watches his two-year-old daughter crying on a straw mat, waving her crippled limbs. Unable to sit up by herself, Trang is one of dozens of malformed babies born in Bien Hoa, where birth defects occur three to four times more often than in other parts of the country, according to a leading Vietnamese researcher. The prime suspect is Agent Orange, the chemical defoliant sprayed for nine years by U.S. warplanes over southern Vietnam. Nicknamed for the orange stripes on its storage barrels, Agent Orange contains...
...hard to conclusively identify the most harried people in what might be the world capital of self-induced burdens. For example, we know already that we missed the guy who took 56 classes in four years and the guy who carried around a sleeping mat because he was too busy to go home to his bed most nights. Even for Harvard students, though, the five individual profiled below exhibit an unusual combination of dilligence, ambition and insanity. Read on to be shocked and amazed...
...Jeese Jantzen, Pat O’Donnell, Reggie Lee and Jones were also winners. Jantzen (149 lbs.) held senior Jason Holder to the mat early, pinning him in 39 seconds. O’Donnell—ranked No. 20 nationally by themat.com in the 165-lbs. class—dominated sophomore Ben Schillens, 9-0. Lee won by one point over senioir Ali Abri, and Jones won a close match over senior Bryon Nelson...
...daughter, she loved that thing,” Avery says, reminsicing about the hours of peace while her daughter Angela—now two years old—entertained herself inside the “activity mat...