Word: swimming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...knew this was going to be a tight meet and that we were going to have to swim to the top of our ability, and we did" Koerckel said. "I don't think there's any reason why we won't continue to do that for the rest of the season...
...swim team was caught by surprise last week when it was announced that a 15-year-old female had tested positive for steroids at the nationals last summer--this as officials prepare to lobby for stricter drug rules. It was the first positive test by a U.S. swimmer since...
...following might be just too horrifying and dangerous for some to depict in their minds. But the folks at the Harvard Model Security Council summarize it all in a grim joke: "China invades Taiwan. You are Taiwan. Your choices--swim, or go buy a Mao suit...
...other hand, Jeff M. Marks '96, a member of the swim team, lamented that Blodgett Pool is indoors...
WHILE PUBLIC OPINION seems polarized between sink-or-swim nostalgics and politically correct diversitarians, serious research increasingly points toward a consensus: children learn English faster and are more likely to excel academically if they are given several years of instruction in their native language first. In a 1991 study endorsed by a National Academy of Sciences research team, David Ramirez, now a professor at California State University, followed 2,000 Latino schoolchildren. "It is a myth that if you want children to learn English, you give them nothing but English," says Ramirez. Both English-immersion and bilingual methods will fail...