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...wide-eyed followers on Sibley's Central Park jaunt was Miranda Holman, 11, who has been birding since she was eight. When she shyly approached Sibley for an autograph, he asked her to name her favorite bird. "The scarlet tanager," she quickly replied, whereupon the artist sketched a Sibley original of the forest dweller on her notepad. Miranda has seen only one scarlet tanager in her life, but if bird watchers can get their conservation act together, she may see many more...
...They're interested in the overall enhancement of their product," said Al Holman, a venture capitalist who collaborated with Gates. "My experience tells me that if you do that right you make money...
...credit for the improvement goes mostly to better training and equipment, but shoes and diet can get only so good before they--and the runners--hit a wall. "It's conceivable the record could be 3 min. 30 sec. in 50 years," says American Olympic miler Steve Holman. "But bringing it down much more is a long way off." Scientists agree. In 1987 researchers at Canada's McGill University developed a mathematical model that predicted a world mile record of precisely...
...what they'd have won. A well-trained runner or ballplayer is one thing; a well-manufactured one is something else--less a product of skill and will than tricky genetics and smart pharmacology. "Maybe one day athletes will call up a prescription for bigger muscles or whatever," says Holman. "But will it still be called a sport?" You don't have to be an athletic purist to know the answer...
...playing Malcolm in a production of Macbeth. Despite all these really great things, my marks in school are really bad, and I mean really, really bad. I pay more attention to my hobbies than to school, and it's actually getting me somewhere. So marks aren't everything. ALAN HOLMAN, age 17 Saskatoon, Sask...