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...above all other superheroes?I really liked the design of Batman. I liked the concept. There's a lot more you can do with Batman than most other superheroes. Like Superman. Superman's basically an omnipotent god. Batman is the flip side of that, which is a lot easier for people to relate...
...reserve for basketball or baseball. Sporting a coxcomb of spiky hair and stylish sideburns, Lin goes by the nickname Super Dan - pronounced "dahn," not like the shortened version of Daniel. After striking gold, the 24-year-old circled the stadium with a Chinese flag fluttering from his shoulders, like Superman with his cape...
...first 36 medals in the Beijing games; swimmers in Speedo's LZR suits are breaking world records right and left. It obviously helps when you have Michael Phelps in your stable. Still, put one of these new suits on and you get a feeling of strength - a psychological superman cape. Even though I swim competitively, at first I didn't understand all of the hoopla surrounding the swimsuit controversies at the Games. Swimmers have been demanding the $550 Speedo suit, even to the point of breaking their contracts with TYR, which had great success in the Athens Olympics...
...mention of religion in the stories. "When you read through the books, there is no mention of Islam, Allah or the Koran," says Mutawa. "I used an Islamic archetype, but the actual stories don't show any Islam, because they are based on values that we all share." Even Superman, Batman and Spider-Man, he says, "are based on religious archetypes. Like the prophets from the Bible, they are all orphans. Superman left his parents on the planet Krypton, and Batman sees his father and mother gunned down in front...
...also, as the participants in the North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling (NEEM) project will tell you, incredibly fun. Where else can you snowmobile all day across some of the finest piste in the world, carve 200-year-old ice cores in a polar cave that would make Superman swoon, and relax at night (night being relative, since the sun never sets during the Arctic summer) with copious amounts of Carlsberg beer delivered to you by the U.S. Air Force? They didn't tell us it would be like this back in high school biology class...