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...Jordan isn't returning to lose, to play for the sake of playing, to get schooled by Kobe Bryant, Tracy McGrady or Allen Iverson. "I'm sure he thinks he can win. Because he walked away healthy. Everybody else limps away," says NBC analyst and NBA Hall of Famer Bill Walton, who played until he was 35. "Basketball is a young man's game and always will be. But when you're really great, you believe you can do anything...
...sake of argument, assume for a moment that blacks and Hispanics are worse drivers--more likely to drive drunk, more likely to be involved in fatalities. (We know from federal studies that only 51% of blacks wear seat belts, vs. 62% of whites.) But is any of that relevant? Worries about traffic safety may be one reason minorities are stopped more often than whites, but those concerns don't explain--at least not entirely--why they are searched more often. Cops search cars for many reasons besides traffic safety--usually because the officers smell or see something...
...Jordan isn't returning to lose, to play for the sake of playing, to get schooled by Kobe Bryant, Tracy McGrady or Allen Iverson. "I'm sure he thinks he can win. Because he walked away healthy. Everybody else limps away," says NBC analyst and NBA Hall of Famer Bill Walton, who played until he was 35. "Basketball is a young man's game and always will be. But when you're really great, you believe you can do anything...
UCLA is about hard work, but not for the sake of knowledge. It’s about working harder than everyone else, because at UCLA, curves don’t help—they kill. Remember that 94 percent you got on a math test last year? That could easily be a C at UCLA. Don’t share notes, don’t study together and don’t even think about helping your friend with that problem set. Enthusiasm runs high, but be prepared to keep it to yourself...
...ground had been leveled," he says. But then, concerned by the "AIDS is from Venus and HIV is from Mars" stance of the government, Uys found himself on the road again, this time visiting impoverished schools with a free and very frank show about safe sex called For Facts' Sake. Foreign Aids is not just a consciousness raiser. It's also a fund raiser for charities close to Uys' heart, like Wola Nani, a refuge for HIV-positive teenage mothers. Next year, he plans to add a further 400 schools to the 160 he has already visited. Before then...