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...single-mindedness stems from personal experience. Huang, who grew up in the remote desert province of Xinjiang, first entered a hospital at age 17 after his father was partially paralyzed by a stroke. The doctors treated the teen with scorn when he asked for information. Says Huang: "I decided then that I would become a different kind of physician." Still, the chance seemed slim. This was during the 1966-76 Cultural Revolution, when universities had been closed; Chairman Mao ordered students into the countryside to learn from the peasantry, so Huang spent years planting wheat on a farm. When...
Capitalizing on that, Bowman tried Phelps in other strokes and found that the gangly teen was a quick learner with an uncanny feel for the water. Still, Phelps says, "he took every single stroke and changed it. From Day One, he wanted me to swim multiple events." That meant an early focus on the individual medley--the grueling test of all four strokes, which Phelps picked up with little argument...
...teen did balk, though, when Bowman tried to fix his starts and turns, the one area in which Phelps falters. In a sport measured in hundredths of a second, getting a smooth start can mean a world record; not wasting time at the wall can separate medal winners from also-rans. Phelps hasn't perfected his turns, says Bowman, because he is simply too good a swimmer. "He'd think, I'll just swim a little harder, and then say, 'That was a best time. How can you complain about that...
...study less and play more. Hari, Alok and Ryan sleep, stumble and cheat their way through Manufacturing Processes and Applied Mechanics to leave room for bigger priorities: vodka, weed and Pink Floyd. Throw in a love affair with a professor's daughter, and you've got every Indian teen's dream. "It's amazing how happy one can be," realizes narrator Hari, "with low expectations of one's self...
...Parental pressure, familial obligations, gender roles, dating, sex, drugs, suicide?just about every teen issue is addressed, and the book has struck a chord in India. Chat rooms are buzzing, and sales have topped 15,000 in just six weeks (making the book a best seller in India's small English-language fiction market). A Bombay-based production company bought the film rights in June...