Word: outdo
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Last year, Brin Wisdom, 25, and a group of seven college friends in Dallas got sick of trying to outdo one another with presents. So they decided to skip the shopping and donate to a local humane society. Each set up boxes in her workplace to collect food, toys and blankets for needy animals. Instead of their usual gift-exchange party, the friends piled $2,000 worth of donations into several cars and distributed them at the shelter. "The animals were going nuts," Wisdom recalls. "We never anticipated how emotional it would be. It ended up being the most rewarding...
...Cheater! Olympic team wins dozens of medals because it has tens of millions of dollars for training: U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.! In the steroid debate, what's often cited is fairness, not to current players but to the records of retired and dead ones. Yet middling athletes of today routinely outdo greats of the past thanks to legal advances in everything from nutrition to sports medicine to biodynamics to equipment. If Roger Bannister had the advantage of competing today, wouldn't he run better than a mere 3:59.4 mile...
...WRITTEN 10 BOOKS IN FIVE YEARS. ARE YOU TRYING TO OUTDO STEPHEN KING? No, he's scaring people. I don't want to scare anybody. I just feel a sense of urgency ... to get a message out there. I've had obesity obliterate my family--it took my father early, and I've got two nephews over 500 pounds. I feel a sense of urgency to shake people up about that...
Garden State is one of those movies for which the trailer—one of the most lyrical, intriguing and hypnotic short films I’ve ever seen—threatened to outdo the whole thing from the start. But the movie is also graced with another presence that recommends it, and perhaps also endangers it at the same time: the triple threat of New Jerseyite Zach Braff, who wrote, directs and stars...
There's little glory on offer, probably none. As the 64th fastest of 69 qualifiers, Gould will need to outdo herself to progress past the heats. And no matter how well she swims she won't be going to Athens - the 50-m 'fly isn't an Olympic event. Australians will watch her, admire her perhaps, and she may inspire some over-40s to get active again. But the future of Australian swimming rests with rivals like Melbourne-based Danni Miatke, whose best time for the 50-m 'fly is 3 sec. faster than Gould's, and who's racing...