Word: performancee
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Epidemiologist Charles Yesalis of Penn State, an expert on performance enhancers, says new I.O.C. testing for EPO is "fluff," that it won't detect athletes who quit taking the drug a week or so before the Games.
Whether he's right or dreaming, Olympic sport clearly needs a sea change in attitude. Without one, the future is scary indeed. According to Dr. Gary I. Wadler, professor of medicine at New York University and an expert on performance-enhancing drugs, "The question is whether we're going to...
Some research has shown that intense coaching, like that at Woodrow Wilson, can lead to short-term spikes in test scores but that later on kids tend to forget much of what they've crammed. "Instead of reading novels, kids are skimming three-paragraph passages for key words," says Linda...
To get in shape for Sydney, TIME assembled its own stellar team, including senior editor Robert Sullivan and chief of reporters Jane Bachman Wulf. Between them, Sullivan and Wulf have attended more than a dozen Olympics for our sister publication SPORTS ILLUSTRATED. (SPORTS ILLUSTRATED/Time Inc. is an official Olympic sponsor...
Freeman's Charlie is a more complicated figure. The Polaroid pictures of Betty he carries take on talismanic power for him, and he keeps referring to her as a Doris Day type, which somewhat oversimplifies her--and also, perhaps, betrays his age and his longing for the more coherent times...