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Harvard's starters were taller than their Blue Devil counterparts at every position. Thus logic dictated that the Crimson pound the ball inside to create easy shots. In particular, the Crimson should go to its most talented inside player, freshman Hana Peljto...
...speculation--gleaned partly from clinical impressions--that at least some boys may be startled and perhaps even freaked out by the sexual changes that their precocious female classmates have begun to evince. "Remember junior high," says Mary Pipher, author of Reviving Ophelia, "where the girls were all five inches taller than the boys and starting to have some sexual development, while the boys had squeaky voices and looked totally young? That difference is further underscored if girls start having puberty...
...basketball player MICHAEL JORDAN. Since Jordan has lent his name to everything from cereal to underwear, why not a children's book? Salt in His Shoes (Simon & Schuster) happens to have been written by his mom Deloris Jordan and sister Roslyn M. Jordan. "Mama, how can I grow taller?" a young Michael asks his mother after losing a basketball game. His mother tells him that putting salt in his shoes will help. Though he doesn't notice any improved verticality, he keeps playing. It will come as no surprise that Michael realizes that hard work and dedication are what really...
...none has anybody to equal badminton's Camilla Martin of Denmark, who was the attraction on the pressroom TV. To say she is smashing is not just to describe her game. But her game, as it happens, is indeed smashing. At 5 ft. 9 in., she is usually taller than her foe, who invariably is a woman from China, Indonesia or South Korea--countries that dominated the sport until the Danes came along...
Taylor said she received an e-mail from Gyorffy that mentioned some troubles she had in Sydney yesterday. According to Taylor, Gyorffy's heel cup, which cushions and supports the foot, made her shoe too thick. That can make a jumper taller, which Olympic officials ruled was an unfair advantage. Gyorffy was told she could not wear the insole, Taylor said...