Word: record
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...young to know fear, but already have the work ethic of mature professionals; they have a young person's hopes and the obsessiveness of those that have perhaps not yet dreamed enough. Mere teenagers most of them, their racing bodies are rock hard, their eyes fixed on record times, Olympic titles and fantasies of domination. Before her big race on Sept. 18, in her darkened room, stopwatch in hand, American breaststroker Megan Quann, 16, visualized victory over world-record holder Penny Heyns of South Africa. "When I swim at practice it's her that I see in my mind...
...Thorpedo" the hometown hero, competing at his first Olympics, was upstaged by two relatively mature - and hitherto little known-swimmers from the Netherlands. Between them, Pieter van den Hoogenband, 22, and Inge de Bruijn, 27, won five gold medals and set six world records on their way to becoming the new royalty of international swimming. "Even the Australians are calling me the queen of the pool," said De Bruijn of the host country's enthusiasm for swimming and the 17,500 fans who rattled the roof with joy after each world record was rewritten. "I still feel like...
...hugely popular Hitchhiker novels have sold 15 million copies since 1981, and Adams has turned them into a British TV series, a set of record albums and CDs, a computer game, a Disney movie due out in 2002 and an Internet company called h2g2, which is building an online collaborative guide to "life, the universe and everything" through the participation of volunteer researchers in 90 countries. Like the fictional guide, the site offers unconventional tourism advice and entries on a huge range of subjects, from Homer Simpson to Homer's Iliad. The mobile guide www.h2g2.com/onthemove) which gives people...
...days will likely play out like a poker game. Gore, lucky enough to have the Leader of the Free World on his campaign staff, will have to somehow keep a straight face when he says electoral politics had nothing to do with the decision. He's still on record last winter as being opposed to the idea, and he's still got George W. pointing out that the Strategic Oil Reserve was meant for wars and embargoes, not market fluctuations. And speaking of expediency, there's still the precedent of market meddling by an agency - the Department of Energy - that...
...caring for children and aging parents. They want a president who solves problems and offers a cure for their "prosperity angst." When they aren't worrying about bad things happening in their children's schools, they're fretting about their parents' health-care costs. They like Bush's education record as well as his plan to use vouchers to rescue children from failing schools, and his "prosperity with a purpose" pitch has been hitting home with them too. But when he got lost in the thickets of tax-cut policy, they started leaning toward Gore, who promises to give their...