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…at the top of the treadmill, just out of reach. This experiment, at least, wouldn't upset his neighbors. Not the way the kite had. A few weeks earlier he had tied a lantern to the top of a kite and set it adrift, just to watch the glow of the light…

…performance-enhancing drugs leading up to and during Olympic competition. Currently, there is an investigation involving the coaches and athletes from East Germany who competed in the 1976 Olympics. As Don Kardong reports in Runner’s World: A German…

…in rural England. Unfortunately, with this emergence, came the use of newer, more enhanced drugs. The first athlete in the modern Olympics who was known to take drugs was American Marathon runner Thomas Hicks, at the 1904 Games in St. Louis, Missouri…

…Allowance Bill of 1930.(32) It has been suggested that rum-running in the Maritimes was economically based on our of work fishermen selling their boats to rum-runners. This "... created a growing market for second-hand boats, and eventually, for new vessels from…

…equipment for the climb such as an ax, ropes, a harness, runners and carabiners. When climbing glaciers or climbing in the ice and snow, it becomes necessary to use crampons and gaiters. An ax is just what it sounds like, an ax, however it is an invaluable tool…

…which was used to make that city more attractive to outside investors. Harvey's second more detailed discussion of specific cultural works is an attempt to place the popular postmodern films Blade Runner and Wings of Desire into the context of increased…

…of the Edmonton police department reported on the youths that "they concluded that they don't want to work in the restaurants and the laundries like the old Chinese guys," (Runner, 2000). Even though it has been noticed that Asian gang members go to great lengths…

…into shape. Nine times out of ten they will say a runner. I tell them that they are correct, and that is their answer. If people would just take a second to think about how most people start to get into shape they would save a lot of money. You see…

…was economically based on our of work fishermen selling their boats to rum-runners. This '... created a growing market for second-hand boats, and eventually, for new vessels from the boat yards of the region.'33 The collapse of prohibition can be attributed…

…, the Queen of the Greek gods.(Symbols, 2) The original idea of the torch relay was introduced by a German man named Theodore Lewald. (Symbols, 2) The torch is lit in Olympia, the home the the Olympic Games and is then carried by a relay of runners to the host…