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TIME: You?ve been on the ice ever since you were little. Friesinger: My parents skated too. My mother was skating for Poland, my father for Germany. All the talent comes from them. When you begin very early, it's just because of fun. My friends did skiing and mountain biking, but they also skated. So it was fun. There was absolutely no pressure from my parents. Never ever. It wasn't stressful. It was just gliding around the track. I loved the speed and watching the people skating around corners...
...energy, protein or diet bars. Even more surprising is their infatuation with flavored concoctions known variously as designer, health or fitness waters. Imaginatively bottled and labeled (Smartwater, Lizard Lightning, Magic Recovery) and laced with every sort of nutritional supplement imaginable, they're fast crowding such standbys as Perrier and Poland Spring off the shelves. But do these highly promoted products really deliver what they promise...
CENTRAL EUROPE The Big Chill Europe expects snow in January, but this year blizzards and storms have caused major problems. In Poland, experiencing its coldest winter in years, more than 200 people have died of exposure. Power lines snapped under the weight of the snow, cutting electricity supplies to 150 villages near Bialystock. A further 200 people died in Russia, where temperatures dropped to -24?C. One-third of the Czech Republic has been declared a disaster area as up to 4 m of snow closed roads. In Bulgaria, the most severe snowstorms in decades cut off dozens of towns...
Sometimes when a humble man steps into history's spotlight, he is transformed, and history with him. So it was when Lech Walesa, an unemployed electrician from the shipyards in Gdansk, Poland, formed the labor union Solidarity and led its struggle against the country's repressive communist government, demanding a series of democratic reforms. The regime at first made concessions and then cracked down harshly, arresting Walesa and outlawing Solidarity. But the movement could not be stifled, nor could Walesa. By the end of the '80s the government would collapse and Walesa would be elected President of Poland...
...Englebert Humperdink's The Way It Used to Be. That weekend, he took his bad eyes and bad elbows to the Tokyo-9 Ball Tournament and won the most lucrative event in the sport, pocketing about $160,000. The following weekend, he won again, this time in Warsaw, Poland. Still, he continues to say that his time at the top might be coming to an end, that he should prepare the country for the day he can no longer be the player they want, and maybe need him to be. During the late '80s and early '90s, when he went...