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...crew’s opening heat in Greece, the eight set the world record for their event, covering the two kilometers in 5.56.55. But Romania edged out the Americans in the final by half a length, and Davies has returned to Cambridge, silver medal in tow, to complete her senior year...
...Where do you keep your medal...
When Olympic athletes were asked if they would take an unknown drug that could take up to 10 years off of their life, but would guarantee an Olympic medal, some 85 percent said yes. Such is the dramatic desperation for success that we would trade years of our life to be at the top (but then with 60 hour work weeks, the kids in daycare or in front of the TV, don’t we do that anyway?). The issue here isn’t necessarily the desire for success, but rather the scale by which we measure...
...BORCHERS, 90, Germany 's most decorated female skier; in Germany. Winner of 12 world and two Olympic titles, Cranz was best known for her victory in the 1936 Olympic Alpine combined skiing event, where, after falling in the downhill, she came back in the slalom to take the gold medal. DIED. W. DORWIN TEAGUE, 94, prolific industrial designer who invented the mimeograph machine and the first fully reclining dentist chair, as well as improved versions of everything from cash registers to can openers; in Carbondale, Illinois...
...purpose of patenting the comb-over was to document and preserve it for posterity,” Donald Smith explained in his acceptance speech, after receiving a pie-tin medal and box of cereal. “Comb on, brothers. Comb...