Word: poled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that Norway had never won. "That's the one I came here to get," says Ulvang, who won a bronze medal in the event in the Calgary Games. "The rest of them were extras." Ulvang stormed to a dramatic and unexpected victory in the 10-km, despite breaking a pole and skiing with only one for more than 1,600 ft. For three weeks before the Olympics, a hip injury had kept him from practicing the skating technique used in the 15-km free-style pursuit race, but that didn't stop Ulvang from finishing second to Daehlie...
...result, the image hovers strangely between the inorganic, mineral fixity of stone and the fluid life of paint. The banner on its pole outside the tent and the whipping linear rhythms of Judith's head ribbon seem blown by an actual wind. And the undercurrent of strangeness is increased by the way Mantegna reduces Holofernes to two anatomical fragments: his head, which the avenging Jewess is placing in a bag, and the sole of his foot, which sticks up above the horizon of the bed end. Mantegna had a liking for feet -- the same dead soles confront your...
Sticking a ski pole into the ground for leverage and vaulting a couple of meters forward to the accompaniment of rock music from a boom box. Wiggling back and forth on skis around a series of powdery bumps, periodically climbing these hillocks to leap off, flinging one's limbs spread eagle for a nanosecond or thrusting one's hindquarters left and right during a fleeting free fall. Skating at breakneck pace in a roller-derby throng around the perimeter of a hockey-size rink. Scuttling along a sheet of ice, brushing away bumps with a broom to clear the path...
...stratospheric ozone layer -- our shield against the sun's hazardous ultraviolet rays -- is being eaten away by man-made chemicals far faster than any scientist had predicted. No longer is the threat just to our future; the threat is here and now. Ground zero is not just the South Pole anymore; ozone holes could soon open over heavily populated regions in the northern hemisphere as well as the southern. This unprecedented assault on the planet's life-support system could have horrendous long-term effects on human health, animal life, the plants that support the food chain and just about...
Just last June, while training for her first Olympics, Michelle Kline, 23, was the most seriously injured of four U.S. speed skaters when the Jeep they were riding in skidded into a light pole. She spent 12 days in intensive care, immobilized by five cracked ribs and a punctured lung. Going to the Games, said the experts, was clearly not an option. "I just wondered if I'd ever feel normal again," recalls Kline. But the next six weeks brought her first halting steps, and two weeks later she began intensive weight lifting and aerobic training. Six months more...