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...will look to add Olympic gold to the silver and bronze that she already owns when she plays in the Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver in 2010. She then plans to pursue a coaching career at the college level, a career that may begin sooner than expected...
...Both teams competed in the National Intercollegiate Rowing Championships this weekend, with each crew taking home silver medals after second-place finishes by their respective varsity eights...
...that if I called one or two local rinks and they hadn’t sold the ice for the next morning they’d let me skate free at 4 or 5 a.m.” recalls Tenley E. Albright, Radcliffe College Class of 1957. An Olympic silver medalist at the age of 16, Albright became the first American to win the gold in ladies figure skating in 1956—while enrolled as an undergraduate...
...spread. In downtown Luanda today, it's clear Angola's new rich are doing well. In April, the $35 million Belas Shopping Center - the country's first mall - opened in a new suburb called Nova Vida. There, in a store called Tapazio, they can shop for such baubles as silver-plated ashtrays and a $7,000 candelabra. Yet 70% of Angolans still live below the country's poverty line. Cholera and malaria are rife, and child mortality rates are among the worst in the world. A kilometer away from Nova Vida, in the shanty town of Cambamba, children play...
Some products have a lucrative rub-off effect. A supermarket-strategy firm found that shoppers who buy silver polish tend to spend more than $200 a trip. So even though it's a low-turnover product, shelving experts keep it around...