Word: quests
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jessica's quest to become the youngest person to fly across the continent began last Wednesday in Half Moon Bay, California. She was to fly east in three legs, laying over in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and Fort Wayne, Indiana, before finally reaching Falmouth, Massachusetts, the town where she was born. She had bumped down in Cheyenne on Wednesday night in a heavy crosswind. "The wind was pushing us out," she told reporters. "You just have to give the plane more power." According to her father, she had been assisted in the landing by Reid, her flight instructor, a veteran pilot...
...question, some parents are ultra-achievers who push their kids too hard, too fast, making every moment of their young lives a competitive and action-packed quest for self-improvement. Others let the kids do whatever they want, sipping and tasting from an array of options and following their own pleasure. Jessica Dubroff may have been a victim of both approaches. While it is often difficult to deter a child who is genuinely passionate about an activity or whose unusual talent sweeps her away into tournament tennis or the Broadway theater, some parents have a disturbing tendency to forget that...
...brief three months it has been on the air, the Best of American Bandstand has become one of VH1's top-rated programs, aiding the network in its haphazard quest to be seen as something other than a buzz bin for all things Celine Dion. The reruns, each featuring newly taped introductions by the still chipper Dick Clark, prove that VH1 has mastered the Nick-at-Nite art of repackaging cheesy old shows as found-object satire. It's so easy! And so hip--a lesson that has eluded the minds at MTV, VH1's cooler sister network, where they...
Boxing is one of the most individual of sports, but when Antonio Tarver, 27, talks about his eight-year-long quest for Olympic gold, he often uses "we" instead of "I." In 1995 the tall (6 ft. 2 in.), lanky (178 lbs.) light-heavyweight from Orlando, Florida, became the first American ever to win U.S., World and Pan American championships in the same year, and he is the best hope for U.S. boxing gold in Atlanta. "Through the years, a lot of people have been there for me," he says. "We've worked very, very hard...
...take a great scientist to embody the nobility of the basic enterprise; a man who doesn't see technology as the world's most important proposition and would rather be playing with his children than making discoveries might conceivably be a good representative of the whole quintessentially human quest, our continuing attempt to learn and build new things. My response to this week's arrest is to congratulate the FBI on its fine work, thank once again the many people who helped us generously when we needed it, remember and honor the men who were bestially murdered and drink...