Word: swimmer
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Pforzheimer resident and swimmer Gregory C. Walker '01 says he wasn't bothered by being placed in the Quad but that there was "the one drawback-that I Knew I would have to go down to the pool three days a week...
Nutritionists say energy bars can be part of a healthy diet. But they worry about the "Snackwell phenomenon." As with Nabisco's tasty low-fat cookies, consumers may be so blinded by the health claims that they lose track of how much they eat. "I just saw a swimmer today who had two bars before practice, and another afterward with a full breakfast," says Kristine Clark, Penn State's director of sports nutrition. "She's 15 lbs. overweight, and she doesn't know she's doing anything wrong...
Richard Wheeler wants to tell you a story about a bird--a fine but flightless bird that lived a long time ago in the North Atlantic. "A magnificent creature," he calls the great auk, "an extraordinary paddler and swimmer." Sitting on the deck of a Wareham, Mass., home adorned by portraits and a sculpture of the 2-ft.-tall black-and-white bird, the shaggy-maned Wheeler scowls when he thinks about the great auk's fate. During the 18th and 19th centuries, commercial fishing vessels scoured the waters off North America for cod. Since the all but defenseless great...
William apparently needs a bit of privacy. A good student, he is, like his mother, a great swimmer (the initials on his warmup suit read WOW, for William of Wales), and in his own extremely cautious way he is beginning to cultivate a relationship with the press. In June he agreed to answer written questions submitted by the Press Association, which released the answers along with information from palace archives. Now it can be told: the young prince likes techno music, fast food and computer games. He likes shopping for his own "modern" clothes but also likes his Eton uniform...
...Atlanta Olympic Games, Irish swimmer MICHELLE SMITH DE BRUIN won three gold medals and became a national hero, brushing aside poolside murmurs that her sudden triumph at the advanced age of 26 might be drug aided. But last week, citing a surprise urine test, the international governing organization for swimmers, FINA, banned De Bruin for four years, effectively ending her career. The tests found no steroids but did detect "unequivocal signs of adulteration" that would mask the drugs, by means of an after-the-fact addition of alcohol, probably whisky. De Bruin, promising "I'm not going to crawl under...