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...school trophies occupy a special place in the heart, a warm space cordoned off for sentimentality and success. Other prizes, an army of identical plastic men posing victoriously atop them, are predictably forgotten just days after their acquisition.Then there are those awards that carry an almost onerous importance. Their weight engraves a permanent appositive for their winner, no matter what happens to him thereafter.In the Ivy League, Lance Salsgiver—“Number one high school baseball player in the state of Michigan” (Detroit Free Press), “first-team high school All-American?...
...Freshmen sometimes wear down,” Brown says. “He’s bigger, stronger. Hopefully [he will] hit the ball out of the park a few more times. And hopefully that’ll help him. He’s put on all positive weight. It’s all muscle strength and everything. So hopefully that’ll help him maintain it throughout the season...
...Harvard wrestling team this weekend at the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association (EIWA) Championships in Bethlehem, Pa. was an encouraging sign for the Crimson as it prepared for the NCAA Championships in two weeks.On Sunday, junior tri-captain Bode Ogunwole and freshman Andrew Flanagan both finished first in their weight classes—the latter in a bizarre sequence in the finals—while junior tri-captain Max Meltzer and junior Robbie Preston both finished second after losing in the finals.After Saturday’s competition, all four wrestlers clinched berths in the NCAA Championships, which will be held...
...outer shell studded with small chemical-explosive charges meant to detonate inward, which would squeeze an inner core of material into a critical mass--is akin to that of classic devices like Fat Man, the atom bomb dropped on Nagasaki during World War II. "Because of the size and weight and the power source going into it and height-of-burst requirements," says the diplomat, Western experts have concluded that the design "is only intended to contain a nuclear weapon. There's no other munition which would work." A report issued last week by Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the International...
...home and brood, and beyond that a sort of aproned activist with a penchant for keeping the neighborhood and community kettle whistling ... If she is not pregnant, she wonders if she is. She takes her peanut-butter sandwich lunch while standing, thinks she looks a fright, watches her weight (periodically), jabbers over the short-distance telephone with the next-door neighbor ... She wonders if her husband will send her flowers (on no special occasion), shoos the children next door to play at the neighbor's house for a change, paints her face for her husband's return before she wrestles...