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...than that, he doesn't deserve to win." ARLENE LANDIS, mother of Tour de France winner Floyd Landis, saying she hoped the result of his drug test-in which the cyclist tested positive for high levels of testosterone-was due to the medication he was taking to treat the pain in his injured...
...then there's 2008. McCain already has strong national-security credentials. His son's service only strengthens his position. It will neutralize the assertions of the left that Republicans are "chicken hawks," pursuing the war for ideological reasons without any connection to the pain of it. And it will probably have a broader effect on McCain's credibility. Critics have accused McCain of pandering to the right in order to solidify his front-runner status, but the power of that argument would be diminished if McCain were seen steadfastly supporting a war even as it endangered his youngest...
...with many more under construction." During those same years, skate-park design reached a plateau of sophistication that you might not have expected from guys who wear really baggy shorts. As skaters have moved into the role of designers, establishing firms like SITE Design Group, Dreamland, Team Pain and Grindline--a grind is what you do when you skate down one of those steel-pipe handrails--the skate park has evolved into an entirely new subdepartment of landscape architecture...
...same years, a generation of skaters turned designers began to emerge. As skaters, they knew how to provide features interesting to other skaters at all levels of ability. They designed the parks and then crafted them like potters at a wheel. Tim Payne, 46, is the founder of Team Pain, based in Orlando, Fla. "Everything is placed, formed and troweled by hand," he says...
...snap decision, a well-intentioned lie calculated to spare his wife unnecessary grief, instead puts a terrible secret at the center of their life together. "He had wanted to spare her," Edwards writes in The Memory Keeper's Daughter, "to protect her from loss and pain; he had not understood that loss would follow her regardless, as persistent and life-shaping as a stream of water. Nor had he anticipated his own grief, woven with the dark threads of his past...