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...again edge Columbia by a score of 5-4. The team was paced by freshman Carolyn Wright, who ripped through all her challengers, most notably including Emma Baratta, one of the top U.S. saber fencers.Harvard’s strong season opening is just what the women need to springboard into upcoming competitions against Princeton and the threat of the defending Ivy League champion UPenn...
...caught smoking crack on an FBI videotape; as the Democratic candidate for a city council seat; in a primary election in Washington. After serving six months in prison for his drug conviction, he made his first political comeback in 1992, winning a council seat and using it as a springboard to reelection as mayor...
...dedicate 13 years of your life to a sport only to pull out. During one of his dives, the Utah native's foot scraped the board. Another awkward plunge resulted in a score of zero, and Wilcock ended the night at the bottom of the 3-m springboard preliminary competition. "Just competing is what's important," he says. "I knew I had to live my Olympic dream...
...Games' first gold was awarded to China's Du Li in the women's 10-m air-rifle competition. The People's Republic followed up Du's feat with another shooting gold, along with a pair of conquests in the men's synchronized platform and women's synchronized springboard diving events...
Television critics will tell you that The Bionic Woman was just another cheesy '70s sci-fi series, but for Ayanna Howard it was a springboard to a career. When she was 12 years old, she became so captivated by the show's cyborg premise that she started reading books that reaffirmed the concept of integrating machines with humans. A thousand reruns and an electrical-engineering Ph.D. later, she's creating robots that think like humans for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "The Bionic Woman showed real, brilliant people giving life through bionics," says Howard, now 32. "I figured I could...