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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diners' Club | 5/10/2004 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kindred Spirits | 3/30/2004 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kindred Spirits | 3/30/2004 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kindred Spirits | 3/30/2004 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 29, 2004 | 3/29/2004 | See Source »

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