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...became 100% disabled, meaning they can no longer do any work." In general, Diener noted, people do adapt to a major life change but not completely. "We have to be careful when we cite these studies," warned the genial researcher, who wore a smiley face T-shirt under his sport coat...
...Alaska sat down for an interview. The Kallstroms are two of the 2,500 full-time residents of Dillingham, Alaska, and owners of the Bristol Bay Inn and a hardware store. The town's population swells to 7,000 in the summer, as it's a magnet for sport fishermen. Todd Palin grew up in a house across the street from the hardware store - a building that has since been "moved," Blanche says, to make way for another building...
...think it is catching on. It's the fastest-growing sport in America. I think a lot of guys are learning to respect our game as well. Our women's Olympic team is going for its fifth gold medal...
...congresswoman knows something about this, having starred on the country's scrappy women's volleyball team that unexpectedly won a silver medal in the 1988 Olympics. It remains the best effort by a Peruvian team in Olympic sports - in any team sport - and the achievement catapulted its members to fame. Perez del Solar is one of two members of the 1988 team currently in Congress. Captain Cecilia Tait served in the previous 2001-2006 term. She was also inducted into the Volleyball Hall of Fame in Massachusetts a few years back. Despite the adulation of the volleyball team, it remains...
...three-round bout. Meanwhile, Jonathan Maicelo, Peru's rising male boxing star, who was also on the undercard, says Malpartida might be the best thing that ever happened to the country's boxing. He told reporters, after defeating Mexico's Javier Gallegos, that Malpartida's fame might get local sporting authorities to recognize that soccer is not the only sport in Peru. "Maybe now people at the [national sports institute] will take notice of us." Now, if only he could learn to box like a girl...