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...game certainly a season doesn’t make,” Murphy said, “but we do this strength and conditioning testing and nine of our top 10 strongest, fastest kids on our team are defensive starters, so we really feel like we’ve got some talented, tough, experienced kids and we should be a good defensive team...
...When Cenix arrived in Dresden in 2001, it had 11 employees. By the end of that year, it had more than doubled that number and boasted scientists from eight countries. "It has been easy to attract essentially any nationality here, with perhaps two exceptions, who seem to have the strongest prejudices against the former East: West Germans and Americans." Old biases die hard, but in Dresden something new has been born. --By William Boston/Dresden
...Pyongyang watchers are trying to divine what Ko's death might mean for the leadership of North Korea. Some observers believe her eldest son, Kim Jong Chol, in his early 20s, is the strongest contender to succeed his father, who himself inherited the job of paramount leader?although her youngest son, Kim Jong Woon, is rumored to be his father's favorite. The only other known contender is 33-year-old Kim Jong Nam, Kim Jong Il's son by another union, but he's believed to have been in the doghouse since 2001 when he was caught trying...
...racked up enough points to secure a medal, but needed some alchemy - or at least some wiles - to turn it gold. When regatta leader Ricardo Santos of Brazil latched onto him at the start, says Fridman, "I decided to take him where the wind was not the strongest." It was a winning move: Santos faded with the wind and couldn't keep up, whereas Fridman muscled back into a better position. "When I saw that, I said, now it's time to leave him and go." Fridman finished the race in second, good enough for gold...
...would make famous in later films like Mystery of the Wax Museum and Doctor X. She had to fight off all kinds of movie beasts, getting pawed by Erich von Stroheim in The Wedding March and Wallace Beery in Viva Villa! But the great ape was her strangest, strongest suitor, in a horror film that was also a poignant love story...