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...players with the same kind of support and love he received growing up is crucial to Duke's success. Unlike most other coaches, Krzyzewski avoids depth charts and assigned positions, insisting that they lead only to competitive anxiety and unrealistic expectations. As a result, Duke has no players whose sole job is to back up another player. Instead, Krzyzewski tells his young men time and again that he trusts them, that they should "run their own race" and that when they step on the court, "all they have to be is themselves." Says Grant Hill, a three-time All-America...
...slowly recognizing that fathers' rights are as important as mothers' and that the laws need to acknowledge the fact that not every single parent is a woman. In Germany parents have been allowed shared custody of children after a divorce since 1998. If parents wish to have sole custody of a child they have to file a motion to have the situation altered. "One morning, five years ago, I woke up and I knew that I was ready to have a child," says a 38-year-old Dutch career guidance consultant, who requested that her name not be used...
...that 5%. So they'll make, as well as they can, anything they think the audience wants. What to artier directors would be a confession is to To a boast: "I change with the audience. I have to get them into the theaters?that's my sole aim." He gets them in, and he makes them pay. That's why the Hong Kong film industry pronounces To as in "dough...
...instructor named Anne Kals started selling Earth Shoes: the heels were lower than the toes to simulate the effect of walking on sand. (It wasn't until the hallucinogens wore off that hippies remembered the arduousness of walking on a beach.) Next came Dr. Scholl's exercise sandals, wood-soled slip-ons that promised to tone calf muscles. Gravity boots became the yuppie home-fitness system de rigueur after Richard Gere dangled from an exercise bar in American Gigolo. In the late '80s teenagers trying to make the basketball team were bounding to school in Strength Shoes guaranteed to boost...
...that going to the scientist who made the original discovery. That's partly to make research widely available while still compensating scientists for their intellectual-property rights. "We have tried to make this access as open as possible," says WARF spokesman Andrew Cohn. "Imagine if a private company had sole control of this patent." Indeed, says Todd Dickinson, a patent attorney and former head of the U.S. Patent Office, "it sounds like WARF is trying to keep access more open than it might otherwise...