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...hurts women and ends the life of the child,” says Tapia. “It’s a moot point to argue for it being illegal until you show that it’s wrong.” The strategy, it seems, is to rope in moderates with liberal language that will make them start listening, and begin to form an anti-abortion consensus. Once abortion is, as Tapia says, “viewed like cigarettes,” it may be easier...
...minutes later, Feng's uncle told him that as the youngest, he would have the honor of going down on a solo reconnaissance mission. Eager to prove himself, Feng slithered down into the darkness with only a rope as a guide. But upon reaching the floor of the tomb, he was overwhelmed by the smell. Feng remembers nothing after that. Later his uncle told him he had fainted from the putrid air and had to be dragged out. The operation was halted until the next night when the looters lugged in an industrial air blower to clear out the tomb...
...play has improved this year—a scary thought, since he was the 2002-03 Ivy League Co-Player of the Year—because of intense training over the summer. He worked out extensively with weights and also improved his footspeed and agility by jumping rope and doing plyometrics drills...
Lingman, who worked with the same trainer that prominent American tennis players like Jim Courier and Michael Chang employed during their careers, trained extensively—jumping rope and doing water work, strength training and other cardiovascular work—to get in premier shape this summer...
...Some people jump rope to work on their footwork, while others, like Doshi, pummel the speedballs until they are nothing but two bluish blurs dangling from the ceiling...