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...Kirstein remembers "the papery cash, its tough fibrous thinness inlaid with bits of red and green silk." The dreamy young man did not take much interest in academics, but he passed Harvard's entrance exam anyway. Once enrolled, he writes, "I felt like a minnow with the freedom to swim in whomever's wake I wanted...
When Tim Carver lined up for the 100-yd. backstroke, I found myself shouting words of encouragement like the rest of the vocal Crimson swim team...
Indeed, Aaron's dogged determination to lose weight was cloaked by his intense training regime. No one though it was strange when he began adding another hour or two to his already rigorous two-and-a-half hour swim practices. He managed to persuade his coach that, after his most important meets were over, he would regain the weight he had lost...
...reached college that it sunk in for me that Aaron was suffering from an eating disorder. It was only then that I found out the "true" story, through a friend--that Aaron's' bewildered parents had quietly slipped him into therapy, that he'd been kicked off the swim team until he gained the lost weight back, an that he spend a month with the threat of hospitalization over his head. He never the years that followed. but then, why should he have? I had female friends in high school with eating disorders that were tactfully even brought up, even...
Proponents argued that few creatures would swim close enough to be deafened by the speakers, which will be anchored 3,000 ft. deep. Moreover, supporters said, the noise would be no louder than other sounds filling the sea, from the thunder of cracking polar ice to the roar of supertankers...