Word: fun
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...Johnson] has his finger on the pulse of the average, apathetic Harvard student," Barkley says. "He speaks to issues in the way students understand them. It'll be fun running with him because we know each other well...
...each of us has thrown a ball, hit a ball, kicked a ball, and we know how much fun these things are. When Tiger, A-Rod, Venus and Serena complain that they are unsuitably recompensed, we have to ask, "Don't you get it? Part of your contract--part of your deal--is, well, you get to play...
Growing up in Manhattan, the son of the dentist who invented tooth bonding, Smigel admits to being "a comedy bully." "I came up with funny things that caught on--nicknames and anthropomorphic cartoons and such," he says. "I genuinely liked the people I was making fun of; I just couldn't resist making fun of them. I lacked the empathy chip." His sensibility, however coarse, owes a major debt to Charlie Brown. Indeed, Charles Schulz was the first to graft existential adult thoughts into the adorable heads of babes and a beagle, and in the wake of his death some...
...hamstrings.) Now at the area's middle school, he asks older kids to take the same skills further. "I have the best job in the world," says Schmidt. "Not everyone is going to want to play a sport. The key is to get them to think healthy and have fun moving...
...benefits can go beyond fun. Ryan Cooper, a seventh-grader in Gardner, Kans., used to get teased by classmates for being shy and overweight. During his four years with grade-school PE teacher KaCee Chambers, whom he credits with encouraging and motivating him, he went from not being able to do a single pull-up to setting the school record. Says Ryan, who also lost 10% of his body fat: "I don't take anything from anyone now!" In Naperville, Lawler recently detected unusually high cholesterol levels in one three-sport middle school athlete, who got medical attention and altered...