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...would never play basketball or catch a football again. But then he discovered wrestling. "I realized I could take sighted people and slam them into the mat," he says. Grappling was a sport where feel and touch mattered more than sight: if he could sense where his opponent had his weight or how to shift his own body to gain better leverage, he could excel using his natural upper-body strength. As a high school senior he went all the way to the National Junior Freestyle Wrestling Championship in Iowa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Adventure: Blind To Failure | 6/18/2001 | See Source »

...would never play basketball or catch a football again. But then he discovered wrestling. "I realized I could take sighted people and slam them into the mat," he says. Grappling was a sport where feel and touch mattered more than sight: if he could sense where his opponent had his weight or how to shift his own body to gain better leverage, he could excel using his natural upper-body strength. As a high school senior he went all the way to the National Junior Freestyle Wrestling Championship in Iowa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blind To Failure | 6/18/2001 | See Source »

...soon encounter the technology's limitation. After a steal, Boston's Paul Pierce viciously slam-dunks over the Jazz defense. Only, I'm busy staring at the box. Suddenly 18,000 fans are on their feet, roaring their approval while I'm trying to find the reset button. I am at the game, with enhanced interactive technology, and I feel like I'm missing the whole thing. ChoiceSeat's motto is: "Get closer." So why do I feel the opposite is happening? When the game ends and the Celtics pull off an upset, a female Jazz fan sitting beside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: We Have Contact | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

...They slam Green Mountain for relying overwhelmingly on natural gas for its energy basket, and for supplementing that with hydroelectric power - which has its own dire forms of ecological impact - and landfill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why a 'Cleaner-Energy' Guy Doesn't Fear a Smokestack-Loving White House | 5/16/2001 | See Source »

True-to-form, at last year's show, the female a capella group the Pitches came onstage to sing, but their harmony broke down into catfight. A slam-dunk contest broke out, and final club members paired off in gladiator bouts. The advertised Harvard Dance All-Stars turned out to be a dancing Alf and boy on crutches...

Author: By Matthew F. Quirk, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Spectacular Mr. Novak | 5/3/2001 | See Source »

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