Word: vaulter
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Among field event competitors, points were widely distributed. Junior pole vaulter Steven Brannon took third place, while freshman shot-putter Kenneth Hughes and junior weight-thrower Mark Clayman both came in fifth to contribute to the Harvard total...
...Harvard men's track team, some of that hard work paid off this Saturday at Gordon Track. In a meet that--in the words of pole Vaulter Steve Brannon--Harvard expected to win by "a pessimistic one point," the thinclads annihilated Northeastern...
Most disturbing for parents is that Michael seemed a perfectly normal teen. He was no self-destructive brooder -- "a bouncy, real nice guy," remembers Cathy Willis, the high schools student-activities coordinator. College-bound, a pole-vaulter who also subbed on the basketball team, he had little to prove. He rode horses, hunted and took part in adult-supervised "demolition derby" auto races, but was hardly a risk addict. Nor was peer pressure a problem, says his girlfriend Raina Hedglin: "I don't know anyone who could influence him." At his funeral, friends and family buried a large...
Paul C.W. Chu is science's version of a champion pole vaulter. Every time he smashes a world record, he just puts the bar a bit higher and goes at it again. It's not just that he's never satisfied with himself; he also knows his many competitors won't let the record stand. What Chu, a University of Houston physicist, and his rivals keep pushing higher and higher is the temperature at % which it's possible to create superconductors --those almost magical materials that allow electricity to flow through them with no resistance whatsoever. When scientists...