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...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...
...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...
...After 2001, I thought she was done,” said Taylor’s high school track coach Joel Williams of her senior year at Harvard, where she won the NCAA championship in the 400-meter hurdles. “Coming out of high school she was the number 10 in the country, but she certainly wasn’t at the very...
Also cheering from the sidelines will be Chris Lambert ’03, who will be running in the 200-meter dash--—in which he is reigning British national champion—and in the 4 x 100 meter relay for Great Britain. Despite the different nationalities, Taylor said she would still be rooting hard for her old Crimson teammate...