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...Cutting Edge" is about a figure skater and an ex-hockey player who are both jerks yet team up to win the Olympic medal in team figure skating. The plot could have been improved by having her play hockey instead of him doing a lutz, but Philpott still watched it when it was on earlier this week...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: Reel-Time Skating: Great Stick Flicks | 11/2/1996 | See Source »

Avoiding collisions is a test of skater-style Darwinism...

Author: By Shira A. Springer, | Title: DESTINATION | 10/22/1996 | See Source »

...Viking is a 26-year-old professional aggressive in-line skater from Denmark. He's visiting Boston after winning the vert competition at this year's X-Games in Newport...

Author: By Shira A. Springer, | Title: DESTINATION | 10/22/1996 | See Source »

...writers featured in the book include prominent figures such as Agee Professor of Social Ethics Robert Coles '50; Professor of Astronomy and the History of Science Owen J. Gingerich; world-class ice skater Paul Wylie '91; and American Red Cross President Elizabeth H. Dole, an alum of the Law School...

Author: By Malka A. Older, | Title: Book Explores Religion at Harvard | 7/19/1996 | See Source »

...story is a rare and tragic instance, the dangers of such overachieving or intense focus on one activity show up in countless ways. The child actor grows up without an education; the tennis star mysteriously drops off the circuit to spend some time being a teenager; the figure skater takes part in a plot to club an opponent. Child athletes may ruin their bodies: ballerinas develop anorexia; teen football players take steroids. And doctors say they are seeing more and more young people who are not special stars exhibiting a range of emotional problems, from depression to eating disorders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EVERY KID A STAR | 4/22/1996 | See Source »

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