led by longtime coaches Bela and Martha Karolyi. In the authoritarian system the Karolyis created, gymnasts were expected to be silent and obedient. Martha Karolyi ran the women's national team for 15 years and took the program to its greatest heights before...
Whether it’s volunteering for a day to pick vegetables, helping at an army base, giving an hour to visit someone shut in at home, helping out the elderly with errands, or making a pot of soup for a new mom or a bereaved family, you may discover that this motivates you, providing a...
How would you like to build a timemachine? Paper, sticks, glue and string are allyou need. Put them together to build a kite. Akite connects you to the past.No one knows who flew the first kite. Itwas probably someone in China or perhapsIndonesia.Indonesianfishermenhungfishhooks on kites...
We live in a world where trust is hard to find. There are so many scam artists, liars, and people who pretend to be someone they’re not. Unfortunately, this is rampant in the world of US military service. Being a service member is something most people would be proud of. It’s ...
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ASIMO is 4 feet 3 inches (1.3 meters) high, which is just the right height to look eye to eye with someone seated in a chair. This allows ASIMO to do the jobs it was created to do without being too big and menacing. Often referred to as looking like a "kid wearing a spacesuit,...
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s on Christmas morning. To test ivory, dealers will scratch a tusk with a knife or hold a lighter under it; ivory is a tooth and won’t melt. My tusks will have to act like ivory. “And I gotta find a way to get that shine,” Dante says, referring to the gloss a clean ...
Tiger called down and asked someone to "secure" the ball until a crew member could retrieve it, and the staff still laugh and roll their eyes about it. They don't know that he often uses military lingo, a small window into how deep he's gotten into that world, words like "...
Several lawmakers remained deeply frustrated that the former president appeared to be exposed to danger, but they did not seem to find a quick solution. “That could have been a disaster if somebody had somebody not spotted the barrel of that rifle sticking out of that fence,” said Sen. St...