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In My Humble Linking Mode This Editorial Must be Dedicated to My Golden Angels: Alex and Gabriella who are starting to spread their teenagish wings and Tracey If they didn't have a coach like Gaven, Elle, Bruce and Tracey, they wouldn't be swimming
Why reading Cold River is the last refuge from the tyranny of time. Our cleanest instruments have produced an illness worse than the one they treat, infecting us with the contagion of real time .
Ach, at the 440 B.C. Olympic Games, a hot young bohemian author made the scene Ironically, debuting at the Olympics, it turned out, was antiquity's equivalent of appearing on Oprah

Feeding the Soul: Life in the lounge: Telling Where it Hurts
Next month sees the release of The Terminal, Hollywood's take on the true story of a man who lives in an airport. But what is life among the baggage carousels really like?
Burdened with debt and uncertain where his future lay, George decided it was time to walk out on his life.
Looking for somewhere warm and dry to sleep, he pitched up at Heathrow Airport and stayed for the best part of two-and-a-half years, surviving homelessness in its relative safety and comfort.
George is not the only one to have found a place amid the benches, shops and restaurants provided for the world's travellers.
How can our children, born to former Easter Europeans who swam across the Iron Curtain, learn swimming is magic?
• What is life among the baggage carousels really like?
• · I guess I own the full set said Ian Thorpe, who now has five golds, three silvers and a bronze from two Olympics [Thorpe Corp: Hall of Heroes]
• · · I'm not one to make rash predictions when it comes to sport but sometimes you have to go out on a limb: Thorpe's the best of all time
• · · · Stuttering Philosophy (PDF version) Besides us, in memory [Grant Hackett - strokes of genius; World record and gold in women's relay: Petria Thomas unbelievable butterfly]
• · · · · Nick Cohen there was a time when some used to burn with anger against oppression and were united in fraternity .... Where have all the children of the left gone? [Joshua Holland, Gadflyer Why Conservatives are Winning the Campus Wars ]