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...Although the whole of Africa collectively took home 34 medals, the same as seventh-place Italy, that also doesn't tell the whole story of that continent's Olympic prowess. The African diaspora - the descendants of slaves shipped to the New World and émigré former colonial subjects - accounted for masses more. How many of the U.S. medals, for example, were won by people of African origin? Well, let's see: There's most of the Dream Team and the women's basketball team; there's Marion Jones; there's Maurice Greene... need...
...hellish environment and settled into a boarding school in rural Kenya. There, he and other Baltimore boys who had been forced to grow up too hard and fast got a second chance to experience childhood - to climb trees, collect insects, do their homework together, read mystery novels. After attending seventh and eighth grades in Kenya, Brandon was named Most Improved Student; last month he returned to a highly regarded magnet school in Baltimore, where he just aced his first Latin test...
...chose a spot beneath the foothills of Mount Kenya, where land is cheap and his teachers, half of whom are Kenyan, are willing to work for salaries as low as $5,000 a year. The focus is on boys (who more often than girls pose disciplinary problems) in the seventh and eighth grades. "That's when we lose them," says Embry. Baraka tries to save the boys with strong discipline, "tons and tons" of adult attention and an accelerated academic program that will be a source of pride to them when they return to Baltimore...
...Division I-AA, the Crimson has the ninth-best passing offense in the nation, averaging 303 yards per game and 16 yards per completion. Rose is the seventh-best passer in the country with a 170.3 quarterback rating, and Morris is the second-best receiver nationwide with 143 yards receiving per game...
Gyorffy spent the summer competing on the European track circuit, which pitted her against many of the same athletes she saw at the Olympics. According to Turner, she finished as high as fourth and consistently in sixth or seventh place in meets from Portugal to Norway. She also won the Hungarian national championships...