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...Winning the championship was definitely a thrill," junior Jake Hollinger said. "It was really great to go in there and prove that all of the hard work was worth...
Mens sana in corpore sano--a sound mind, a sound body--once formed the simple ancient virtue of sport. But in time too much of athletic competition has come to be writ in mythic proportions. Sports heroes loom larger than life. A sense of god-like immortality accompanies the "thrill" of victory. The divide between life's reality and the fantasy of Elysian fields is being trampled by the universalized pursuit of fame and glory through athletics...
...KICK OUT OF DANGEROUS sports like skydiving and whitewater rafting? Do you jump eagerly from job to job or even get a thrill from rearranging the furniture? If so, you are probably what psychologists call a "novelty seeker." The exact origins of personality types have eluded scientists for years. But it now appears that a craving for exciting new experiences can be credited, in part at least, to a single gene...
...this mean the D4DR gene alone compels people to take up bungee jumping or air surfing? Emphatically not. Researchers suspect that another four or five dopamine-related genes also contribute. Moreover, behavior ultimately depends as much on upbringing and opportunity as it does on innate temperament. Someone with the thrill-seeking gene might turn out to be a serial murderer, observes behavioral geneticist Irving Gottesman of the University of Virginia. "Under a different scenario and in a different environment," he says, "that person could become a hero in Bosnia...
...Shakespeare's upper-class mass murderer reimagined as a clever fascist in the court of Edward VIII. The 1930s was a decade of ruthless strongmen, in both European politics and Hollywood movies. Gangsters, mesmerizing in their amoral ambition, were the men of the moment; they lent a sick thrill to the front page and entertainment section. This Richard is such a fellow, Hitler as Scarface. From the opening titles, which explode in a blast of artillery, to the closing image of Richard laughing on his way to a fiery hell, this is not just Shakespeare played on film...