Word: slenderness
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...incubating a huge pool of tender-aged athletes, China has struck gold particularly in sports like gymnastics, diving and table-tennis that the slender, lithe physique of the average Chinese tends to complement. China's table-tennis team swept all golds at both the Atlanta and Sydney Games?a dominance unmatched by any country in any other sport. But China's sports system has also been successful by deliberately focusing on Olympic events that were underfunded and unappreciated in the West. When China fully rejoined the Olympic movement in 1984, the country discovered that many women's sports were languishing...
...Outdoor Life Across the road from the gas station forecourt, an Aboriginal family have made their home beneath a slender tree; friends and relatives come and go. "The grass keeps the wind off," explains father Leslie Robbor (standing, with back to the camera). On weekday mornings, his son Darren and daughters Brenda and Jasmine scrub up in the ablution block and go into the roadhouse, where manager Jones gives them breakfast and correspondence lessons sent from the Aboriginal community at Kalkarinji, 170 km to the south. If the kids are good, they get to cool off afterward in the roadhouse...
...Inside, the cave floor slopes away in the dim light to a wide and uneven ledge before dropping abruptly into a large chamber which curves away out of sight. The only sound is of water dripping somewhere. As he crouches on the slimy ledge among the slender tips of stalactites, the torch light suddenly catches splashes of color on the chamber's far side. There are about 15 stencils, some in such a rich russet they almost glow against the pale limestone, silhouettes of adult hands both left and right, one with a forearm also stenciled, several others with curiously...
...blast severs the columns, the floors above could still hang from the trusses. But engineering isn't just what military strategists call a force enhancer. In the right hands, it's also a path to new kinds of beauty. Just look at Piano's diaphanous London Bridge Tower, a slender glass pyramid that forms a glistening stalagmite against the old city's skyline. The MOMA show is co-curated by Guy Nordenson, a well-known structural engineer, and Terence Riley, the museum's chief curator of architecture and design, who says he decided to do it after seeing the first...
...that it kills. The press has been all over this story for years while at the same time celebrating the svelte and the diets that make them that way. So it's not enough to say the fast-food industry's propaganda trumps our mass desire to be slender. Something else must be operative here--some desperate need for sugary comfort that all the green, leafy vegetables in the world cannot satisfy. We still say it's spinach, and we still say the hell with it. --By Richard Schickel