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...Absolutely. I mean, you’re not going to be some person off the street, put a suit on and break a world record, but I felt a difference when I dove in the pool. I felt like I was just sort of skyrocketing through the water...like I was floating on top of the water more so than I already do. I definitely felt a difference when I was swimming and my times dropped—a big drop. I’m glad they’re going back to the old school and it?...
...Probably the first race I broke a world record in. I was 15 years old, I was over in Holland swimming in a meet. I had a crush on a swimmer named Rowdy Gaines. He came up to me, and I was on the massage table, and I was getting ready for the finals of the 50, and he threw out a time he thought I could go. And I’m like, “Yeah, whatever, that’s a world record, you know...
Even before the latest pummeling, Washington had recorded 45 inches of snow this winter, including two of the heaviest storms ever to batter the city. Wednesday's storm - with some six inches recorded already, and snow falling at a rate of as much as two inches per hour at mid-morning - is poised to shatter a 111-year-old record for total seasonal precipitation. "No one ever has seen this much snow in Washington, D.C.," according to Mayor Adrian Fenty, who said on Wednesday that the city would ask the federal government to foot some of the cleanup costs...
...tons of salt for snow removal. Near downtown Washington, trees remained strewn across intersections. The paralysis is "another example of how poorly the federal government responds in times of stress," says Paul Light, a professor of public service at New York University. (See pictures of Asia's record snowfalls...
...news comes on the back of over 1,300 complaints filed about the Prius models on the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration website as of Monday. Toyota's North American president Yoshi Inaba is scheduled to testify in Washington on Wednesday over the company's safety record at a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing...