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With the addition of an e-mail form to the Schlesinger website, reference requests have skyrocketed. And the questions are often more in-depth than in years past, according to librarian Ellen Shea...
...book category, ranging from Anne Frank to Young Jedi Knights; under music, there's writing built around everyone from David Bowie to David Cassidy. While most other fan-fiction sites are boutiques devoted to Harry Potter or The X-Files, "FFN is the giant shopping mall," says Tara O'Shea, 28, who started writing fan fiction at age 11. Says Chris Burks, creator of www.lit.org a site for original fiction writers: "There's nothing else like it. Nobody else is archiving so much or has such an open editorial policy...
...Ohno, a 19-year-old Japanese American who just may be the coolest teen on the planet, is an avatar of the new breed of Winter Olympian. Jim Shea Jr. is the ultimate throwback, and his triumph in the age-old but just reintroduced sport of skeleton was a fairy tale to top all others, except possibly Kostelic's. Riding with Shea inside his helmet was a photograph of his grandfather, a former speed-skater who had been America's oldest living Winter Olympics champion until his death in a car crash just before the Games. The Sheas are legends...
...wall and you've got four G-forces pushing you into the sled, that's cool," says Utahan Lincoln DeWitt, 34. He was first in the World Cup rankings last year, but has slid a bit this year. He certainly has a shot at winning, as does teammate Jim Shea Jr., 33, of Lake Placid...
...Jimmy Shea's was one of the feel-good stories in the run-up to the Games and is now one of the most poignant. His grandfather Jack was the oldest living U.S. Olympic gold medalist at 91, having won twice in speed skating at the 1932 Games. Jimmy's father Jim Sr. was a Nordic combined athlete--that's ski jumping followed by cross-country skiing--in the 1964 Olympics. Both men were to be in the stadium when Jimmy marched in, but Jack was killed in a car accident two weeks ago. Jimmy will slide with his grandfather...