Word: piped
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...that captured this history, such as Twain’s oft-cited Adventures of Huck Finn. Similarly, this eradication would endow the word with more destructive power and heighten its taboo. The idea that the elimination of a racist term will eliminate racism itself is nothing more than a pipe dream...
...Winter Olympics. It's a TV-friendly contest, and the U.S. should dominate. The halfpipe is a U-shaped channel carved in the snow in which riders do lip tricks and airs, including rotations, before landing. Amplitude, the height of each trick off the lip of the pipe, is key, as is style...
...aerialist Alla Tsuper, as well as the men's No. 2, Alexei Grichin. It is a surprise that Australia, hardly a ski power, has a strong contender in Jacqui Cooper. Canada, an aerial force, will offer Veronika Bauer and Jeff Bean. Although the U.S. will dominate the snowboarding half-pipe, its riders are basically uninterested in the parallel giant-slalom race. Look for Slovenia's Dejan Kosir to take the men's duel, while Frenchwomen Isabelle Blanc and Karine Ruby will be tough to keep off the medals stand...
...shadow of Sept. 11 looms large over the Olympics, but this security strategy is based on bitter lessons learned years earlier at the Games in Atlanta, where a pipe bomb exploded in a public square, killing a bystander and injuring more than 100 people. President Clinton responded with a directive placing the Secret Service in charge of security for all major public gatherings, including the Olympics; the directive also tasked the FBI with crisis management--anything from hostage rescues on down--and the Federal Emergency Management Agency with coordinating disaster response. Salt Lake City is the first test of Clinton...
...Miyake and Hashimoto both compete in the half-pipe, which entails surfing down the sides of a 120-m-long snow chute, vaulting high into the air, twisting, turning and flipping, then zipping down the slope again and up the other side, going back and forth, like a human pendulum. It looks like skateboarding in snow. Both profess, in the mantra of their sport, that having fun is more important than winning. Insists Miyake: "I don't know why the medal question keeps coming up all the time." If she wins, it will be one for the slackers, zero...