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...MUNICH Briton James Pearn runs the Munich Dining Club for young English-language speakers, which meets every few weeks. "The club's aim is to go to some of the best restaurants," says Pearn. A typical dinner starts from $24, usually with a $7 cover charge...
...ability to swim fast - she was, for a time, the fastest woman ever over all the freestyle distances - was a gift Shane Gould couldn't cope with. A year after winning five medals at the Munich Olympics, the Sydney-born schoolgirl was lost. For Gould the joy of swimming was the sensation of gliding through water and the process of trying to do it better; but most people seemed fixated on results. Feeling depersonalized by celebrity and curious about life beyond the pool, she lacked the will to churn out laps...
...excel." By that age, Talbot argues, most women have overcome issues of body image and social awkwardness, and are ready to hit a peak that can last five years or more. But Gould was long gone by 21. She may have appeared happy in Munich; in fact, she felt crushed by expectation. "Anyone with any imagination ... might have seen that a 15-year-old girl from whom so much was expected could have used (some) help," she wrote in her 1999 autobiography, Tumble Turns - a massage perhaps, tips on diet, the occasional joke. Alas, well-meaning but unskilled Australian officials...
...lined face tells of toil and distress. Three years after Munich she married an older man, Neil Innes, a fundamentalist Christian contemptuous of competitive sport. They drove across the continent to Western Australia, where they bought land and practiced subsistence farming while raising four children...
...Kyoto Protocol), undermining the authority of the U.N. and ignoring the advice of old allies and the sentiments of the international community. Thanks to Bush's blind policies, the world is a much more dangerous place today. The American people must put an end to this. MORENA NANNETTI Munich...