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Only 17 men have staked claim to the honor, which has grown in stature since Donald Lippincott became the first official world-record holder in the 100-m dash at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics. Lippincott, a student at the University of Pennsylvania, was an unlikely winner: a supplementary member of...
Yang is a relative latecomer to the game. While Woods famously putted against Bob Hope on The Mike Douglas Show when he was 2, Yang didn't even pick up a club until he was 19. The fourth of eight children in his family, he finished his mandatory 18-month...
But Yang was doing much more than that. He started practicing on his own during the evenings, and the game took hold of him. Even after his father forced him to quit and take a higher-paying construction job, Yang's interest in golf persisted, and he would practice without...
For 25 years, Madhu, some 185 miles (300 km) from the capital of Colombo, remained well within the battlegrounds of the civil war between the predominantly Sinhalese government and the separatist Tamil Tigers. It was not until April 2008 that the military gained full control of the shrine; the Tigers...
The statue had been in grave danger before. In the late 17th century, the Protestant Dutch tried to eradicate the Roman Catholicism brought to the island by the Portuguese. The Virgin Mother had been moved from the shrine then as well and secreted away. In the 21st century, the statue...