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...Internet connection. Starz! won't let you in the door unless your DSL or cable modem is clocking at least 600 kilobits per second. (Tip: you can test your line at toast.net/ performance. If you think Starz! is rejecting you without merit, try again later; the site's speed meter is not always right...
...participated in the women’s 400 meter hurdles in this summer’s Olympic Games. As an athlete the current focus on eliminating drugs from sports is utterly embraced and yet wholly wearisome. The joy for me is that catching the cheaters will ensure that the playing field will be just a little more level. However, a great deal of focus on a few athletes’ ability to take advantage of the system undermines the accomplishments of clean athletes—whose hard work and steadfast discipline yield substantial performance improvements. Although the U.S. Anti-Doping...
Brenda Taylor ’01 is a member of the USA Track and Field team. She competed in the 400 meter hurdle finals at this summer’s Olympic Games...
...nong loves thunder. "It makes the mushrooms so scared, they simply jump out of the ground," he jokes. Sui-nong spends each summer scaling 3,500-meter ridges in China's Yunnan province searching for mushrooms of a very special sort: the matsutake, a fungus prized above all others by Japanese gourmets...
...known for the bottle-nosed dolphins that can be hand-fed along the resort's shoreline each evening. But for a real encounter with the wild, guests climb onto boards made of waxed Masonite or wood fiber and throw themselves off the summit of one of the nearby 90-meter sand dunes. They call it "sand tobogganing...