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...diver uses fins but no extra weights to dive as far as possible before coming up for air. No-limits free divers take it further, using a weighted sled running down a vinyl-coated steel cable that pulls the diver to depths where Coke cans implode and fish swim nearly blind. An air bag at the top of the sled is inflated by the diver and shoots the diver to the surface. Because of the short submersion time, decompression sickness--the bends--isn't normally a problem. Fewer than two dozen people in the world compete in this extreme version...
...beach. "And action!" director Lee Tamahori calls through a megaphone. Berry dips under the surface, pops back up, runs her hands through her hair, then sashays toward shore, her wet skin glistening in the sunlight. Tamahori asks her to do it again. And again. Then he has her swim toward the camera. "And action!" Cut, action, cut, action, one final "Cut!"--and the set bursts into applause...
...sexiness but also the classic fight scenes and the feel of a true thriller--and says he's trying to deliver a 21st century update of that. "Filthy and snappy!" he says to Brosnan and Berry as they film the scene in which Bond and Jinx meet after her swim. He wants more lust and leer in this encounter--and the whole film. Rosamund Pike, who plays MI6 agent Miranda Frost, jokes that "Lee wants to make this an X-rated Bond film." In truth, he just wants a "traditional" Bond. After Dr. No's release in 1962, the Vatican...
Bilingual education is the best way to even the playing field between native English speakers and those who need to learn the language. Telling non-native speakers to sink or swim in classes taught in English does far more harm than good...
...Tompkins’ job brought her to the dining hall early in the morning, she grew particularly close to members of the swim team who came in a group of around 80 students to eat in Eliot House each morning, Della Barba said...