Word: swimming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...flip turn, he makes a comment about Hahvahd. I am taken aback: the owner must have been bragging. The murmur of conversation in our area has died: all ears are on me. I smile and respond, then try to get my concentration back to where it should be: my swim class. On the way home, I see college decals in the back windows of other cars: University of Idaho, Pullman University, BYU. I promise myself never to buy a Harvard decal. The big red tattoo on my forehead is more than enough identification...
Each episode of Kratts' lands the brothers in a different part of the world--the Caribbean, South Africa, the Everglades--to study local animal life. Study is the wrong word, really; what the Kratts do best is hang out. They strap on diving gear and swim with manatees (they're the sea cows), giggling as they scratch the animals, because manatees, we learn, love to be scratched. In another episode, the brothers roll around in the mud with hyenas. When the Kratts travel to Australia's Great Barrier Reef, which they describe as "the world's greatest construction site...
...Dyken went shopping a few weeks ago and ran into some old high school classmates. The very girls, it happened, who once tried to keep her off the school's relay swim team by complaining to the coach, throwing her clothes in the pool and spitting in her direction. A severe asthmatic, Van Dyken was a skinny girl with a persistent cough who struggled to make it through a race. But a decade of determination later, "it felt good," she says, "to walk into the mall and see these girls who wouldn't swim a relay with me because...
...States. The paper blames the U.S. for Saturday's bombing attack, and attributes the low Chinese medal count to a litany of complaints, including what they claim to be small rooms and lousy food for the athletes, late buses, and even an errant fire alarm that rousted the Chinese swim team out of bed before dawn one day, interrupting an all important good night's sleep. "The U.S. got off easy," says TIME's Sally Donnelly. "On some things, such as organization, the Chinese are right, and have legitimate complaints. But the Chinese also expected to walk away from...
...what seems lazy may be calculated strategy. "I take swimming for what it is--a sport," says Hall in an interview at the Phoenix Swim Club, his home base. "For some, training becomes a ritual as important as the competition itself. You feel trapped. The line at the bottom of the pool haunts your dreams." Gary Hall Sr., who set 11 world records in his time and held his 21-month-old namesake aloft after making his third Olympic team in '76, isn't worried about his son. "At warm-up meets, he goes through the motions, and that freaks...