Word: performancee
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That's the thesis of Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America--that the lagging academic performance of African-American students isn't caused by the residual effects of prejudice or poor schools but by a "cult of anti-intellectualism" that has infected black America from the ghetto to...
Yet Olympic meets have meant trouble for Thompson's personal dreams. Eight years ago, she headed to Barcelona as a world-record holder and favorite for four medals. She finished second in the 100 free. "I choked big time," says Thompson, making no excuses, even though rumors had swirled that...
Scientists at the Pentagon's COMBAT FEEDING PROGRAM in Natick, Mass., say the chip could also carry "nutraceuticals." Those are pharmaceutically enhanced foods to better performance, improve autoimmune responses or cut combat-related stress. Now, if only they could make them in sour-cream-and-onion flavor.
His performance was a drama of arrival - a presidential bar mitzvah. The son took over. The torch passed. That was a grown man addressing the convention in Philadelphia - speaking with the seasoned authority of a life that is manifestly his own. That is an odd thing to say of someone...
As for that imperfect test for EPO--use it anyway. As gold medal marathoner Frank Shorter, now chairman of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, says, knowing a test is looming will knock cheaters off stride. Shorter says that if there is no EPO test at Sydney, then every endurance or...