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...career, U.S. speed skater Chad Hedrick was a calamity. Thirteen years ago to this very day, his grandmother, Geraldine Hedrick-"my buddy"-died of brain cancer. The combination of grief, cabin fever- he arrived in Torino twelve days before the Games ("rolling around in bed takes it toll on you")-and the pressure of his first Olympic race drove Hedrick to tears. And into the stands, where friends and family tried to calm his down. "I kind of felt like a sissy," says Hedrick...
...Cuban friends, I began to find myself impressed with what Cubans did have. The government provides universal health care, education, housing, and food rations. It even generously funds the arts. And once I focused more on people than on architecture, I saw that economic poverty had not taken a toll on the wealth of Cuban culture. One Sunday, I watched a colorful parade march alongside the gutted buildings of the city’s main street. Dancers in elaborate costumes twirled alongside musicians playing every sort of instrument to the delight of hundreds of spectators. It was as though this...
...remains of his severed limb. It's a scene being played out daily as soldiers and Guardsmen come home from Iraq seeking treatment at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, Brooke in San Antonio and veterans' hospitals nationwide. Three years since the start of the war, the toll of seriously wounded from Iraq exceeds 7,600--men and women without limbs, with horrid burns, with brain damage, all of them dealing with the psychological scars of war. Braddock is just one of at least 345 who have had amputations--a higher rate per injury than in any other modern...
...Imagine that. He started buying Beazer at $8 a share and has held on while it soared to $69; Centex at $10, now $68; Meritage at $3, now $59; NVR at $60, now $759; Pulte at $5, now $37; Toll Bros. at $10, now $32. ?They?re still dirt cheap,? Muhlenkamp told TIME...
...water in three weeks (5-1, 3-1 Ivy), grabbed the lead early in the day and ended with a 194–104 victory against the Bears (3-3, 2-2 Ivy).“It was a little challenging because exams and reading period certainly takes its toll,” sophomore Geoff Rathgeber said. “I think we maintained our focus for most of it and we were all excited to get back in the water and race.”Nine different swimmers and one diver contributed to the 14 Harvard wins...