Word: swimming
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...sounds like overreaching, for Schnatter it's nothing new. As a 5-ft. 6-in. high school shortstop in Jeffersonville, Ind., Schnatter vowed to become the best player at his position in the history of his school. Rising at 5 a.m. to lift weights and work out with the swim team, he set a record for fewest errors that stands today. (He brings a similar ardor to his current golf game, meticulously studying videotapes of his swing.) At the same time, Schnatter baked pizza at Rocky's Sub Pub, a neighborhood hangout, where he learned to make fresh dough. "That...
...would as a child constantly seek theaccolades of his grandfather Arthur Winslow. Yearslater, Stuart in desperation decides to fall backon her sense of family honor so ritualisticallyingrained and return to her family's homestead inConcord, to a house near Walden Pond. Here sheexpects her children to learn to swim at the famedlocale. The children desert the pastoral settingfor a local pool, and Stuart out of some sense ofrestitution, a keen sense of the absurd and justflat out love of a story, is alright with this andin fact with all that goes on in the novel...
What does it take to make an excellent student? The student who not only sits at the head of the class (and the horn section, the swim team, the debate society and yearbook) but also enjoys the respect and friendship of teachers and peers? The encouragement of a parent or two certainly provides a foundation. But to find out more, TIME interviewed dozens of superb students from across the country, along with their parents, teachers, mentors and friends. What emerged is some clear patterns and some lessons well worth studying...
...suffered seizures. Doctors predicted death. But her family prayed to her eponym, a martyred Carmelite nun named Teresa Benedicta of the Cross; and a week later little Benedicta toddled out of the hospital, carrying a balloon and pushing the elevator button herself. Now 14, she is on her school swim team. The Roman Catholic Church saw her recovery as a miracle, and last Sunday, Teresa Benedicta (1891-1942) was scheduled to be canonized...
...know we can all laugh at ourselves. I would disagree that there are no health problems with obesity, but I do know my size should never stand in the way of my life and work. I am a mother, wife, homemaker and senior in college. I have fun, swim, garden and have many friends who see me as a whole person, not just somebody who forgot to stop eating. Yay for the Million Pound March! May it march again. TERRY STAMP Bridgeport, W.Va...