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...race was a three-way contest between Northeastern's and Radcliffe's second heavyweight boats and Radcliffe's first lightweight boat...
...would be dangerous, however, to dismiss the words of this self-proclaimed lightweight too quickly. He understands small not physically, but in the sense of an underdog, an unlikely victor. This he certainly was--the Las Vegas bookies considered him such a longshot that they wouldn't even set odds on the match...
...their respective heats. Stoddard rowed a time of 8.53 to finish second in the final only to a Canadian entrant, placing her at the top of all U.S. collegiate women on the ergometer. Light-weight Aoibheann Sweeney's heat time of 9.33.5 qualified her for the world lightweight final competition, in which she came in sixth, with a time of 9.31. Our lightweight coach Holly Metcalf won the Masters world championship in a time...
Holtz avoided a lifetime sentence in the mills and went off to Kent State, where he played as a lightweight and little-noticed linebacker. After graduation, he learned his craft as a ubiquitous assistant coach in a succession of schools: Iowa, William and Mary, Connecticut. But it was after accepting a job at the University of South Carolina, only to watch helplessly as the position was temporarily eliminated, that Holtz began to lay out the rest of his life with some purpose. He made a list of 107 things he wished to accomplish, naturally including leading the Fighting Irish...
...16th century. But it was not until this century that making things smaller became a matter of military and economic survival. Spurred by the cold war and the space race, U.S. scientists in the late 1950s began a drive to shrink the electronics necessary to guide missiles, creating lightweight devices for easy launch into space. It was the Japanese, though, who saw the value of applying miniature technology to the consumer market. In his book Made in Japan, Akio Morita tells how he proudly showed Sony's $29.95 transistor radio to U.S. retailers in 1955 and was repeatedly asked...