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More than half the crew were rookies, who seemed to delight in the surprises of space, highly disciplined engineers and doctors reveling in a place where rules are broken, where physics plays games--Look, my cup is floating. They swam through the Columbia's passageways like happy dolphins, thrilled with their good fortune, doing somersaults. This came naturally to David Brown, who in an earlier life was a tumbler and stilt walker in the circus and rode a 7-ft. unicycle before he settled down to be a flight surgeon and naval aviator. That turned out to be good training...
...women, Iranians and foreigners alike, have to dress in Islamic fashion, which means either a dark, tentlike chador, or at least a long smock over a modest dress or trousers, with the head covered by a scarf. Even at holiday resorts on the Caspian Sea, where women once swam in bikinis, the rules are rigidly applied, and women are required to cover themselves from head to toe while swimming...
Simply put, Cole has been unbeatable—and it hasn’t even been close. At the 2003 EISL meet, Cole swam the 1,650-yard freestyle with a broken hand. His goggles grew uncomfortable during the race, so the first-place Cole stopped dead in the water and adjusted both his goggles and his swim cap. Yale’s Greg Palumbo passed Cole as he was treading water, but Cole overcame the deficit, and out-touched Palumbo at the wall. Broken hand...
...next two years, she swam and marched and studied and argued with herself about the course she should choose. And as Oath Day approached, so did a war that for some cadets changed their calculations for going to West Point in the first place. The "five and fly" kids who hoped to pass through the Army on their way to riches now found that the road to Wall Street might include a detour through Baghdad. Their families had some strong feelings--strong but by no means uniform--just as the cadets did. Parents who were once proud that their kids...
...waxes poetically about her undergraduate experience. She was, as her ill-fated sonnet attests, “wide-eyed,” but not “lonely”; her fellow ’Cliffies joined her atop Cabot Hall at night to recite poetry. She swam competitively. And in 1945, she fell in love...