Word: sevened
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...flip-flop (twice) on saying farewell to his game. Pitcher Roger Clemens remains the reigning king of comebacks: he retired a total of three times, in 2003, 2006 and 2007. Lance Armstrong left cycling in 1996 to battle cancer but returned two years later, going on to win seven consecutive Tour de France titles...
...Vietnam, while George Foreman, who quit boxing in 1974, became the oldest fighter to win a major heavyweight title 20 years later. And it's not just athletes: in 2006, Barbra Streisand fans nearly took their idol to court when the singer announced a series of farewell shows - seven years after her last "last-ever" tour...
...Asian printmakers - with leading artists among them - are in the vanguard of rehabilitating the craft. Their base is a renovated former godown in Singapore: the seven-year-old Singapore Tyler Print Institute (STPI). It runs a course for artists in fine-art printmaking, and then sells their work to increasingly enthusiastic collectors, who during cash-strapped times are looking for quality alternatives to overpriced canvases. "We're an amphibian," says Emi Eu, the STPI's director. "We're a gallery and a learning institution at the same time." (Read "Painter Laureate...
...Crimson saw Dartmouth last weekend, edging the Big Green by seven strokes...
...college and another corpse at the upscale Ambacang Hotel. No survivors were found. But Michele Mercier of Swiss Rescue says the team will stay for several days. In previous missions in places like Turkey and Algeria, Swiss Rescue dogs have nosed out living people as long as six or seven days after a natural disaster. "It's rare, but miracles like that are what keep you going," says Mercier. (See pictures of the earthquake that ravaged Sumatra...