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1. Track and Field News (MSNBC news)
   Provides news on the track and field events of the 2004 summer Olympics. 8-04

2. 08-26-04 Track and Field - USA Sweeps 200 Meters Race (MSNBC News)
   "Shawn Crawford led an American medals sweep of the 200 meters Thursday, overcoming teammates Bernard Williams and Justin Gatlin — and a hostile crowd — to win in the fastest time in the world this year." 8-04

3. 08-26-04 Track and Field - Phillips Wins Gold in Long Jump (MSNBC News)
   "Dwight Phillips led a 1-2 U.S. finish in the men’s long jump Thursday, jumping 28 feet, 2Ό inches on his first try to win the gold medal. NCAA champ John Moffitt was second with a personal best of 27-9½." 8-04

4. 08-28-04 Track and Field - Holms is Gobsmacked (Sports Illustrated News)
   "Kelly Holmes of Britain completed a rare double when she captured the Olympic gold medal in the 1,500-meter race Saturday to go with her win in the 800."
   
   "Only two other women have won the two middle-distance races at the same Olympics."
   
   " 'I just can't believe it. I'm gobsmacked,' said Holmes, who ran a season-best 3 minutes, 57.90 seconds." 8-04

5. -04-20-06 New "Force Field" to Protect U. S. Tanks (Defense-Update.com)
   "The Trophy active protection system creates something equivalent to a hemispheric "force field" around the protected vehicle. It has three elements providing – Threat Detection and Tracking, Launching and Intercept functions. The Threat Detection and Warning subsystem consists of several sensors, including flat-panel radars, placed at strategic locations around the protected vehicle, to provide full hemispherical coverage." 04-06

6. Strength or Endurance (National Geographic - Triveda)
   Provides results of a study to find if athletes are good at speed are poor at endurance and visa versa. 2-02

7. Joyner-Kersee, Jackie (Sports Illustrated)
   Provides a biography of the greatest athletes of the 20th Century. "In ways that could be measured, Jackie Joyner-Kersee was one of the greatest Olympic athletes in history, and in ways that could not, she was a rare combination of courage and grace, of power and vulnerability." Includes a picture. 12-02

8. Zaharias, Babe Didrikson (Sports Illustrated)
   Provides a biography of the person recognized as the "Greatest Female Athlete of the First Half of the 20th Century." Includes a picture. 12-02

9. Migration and Seasonal Change Research Projects (Annenberg Foundation - Journey North)
   Journey North engages students in a global study of wildlife migration and seasonal change. K-12 students share their own field observations with classmates across North America. They track the coming of spring through the migration patterns of monarch butterflies, bald eagles, robins, hummingbirds, whooping cranes -- and other birds and mammals, the budding of plants, changing sunlight and other natural events. Find standards-based lesson plans, activities and information to help students make local observations and fit them into a global context. Widely considered a best-practices model for education, Journey North is the nation's premiere "citizen science" project for children. The general public is also welcome to participate. 8-04

10. Lewis, Carl (InfoPlease.com)
    Provides a biography of the track and field champion. 1-05

11. -07-01-07 Presidential Election 2008 Progress (PBS.org)
    "To cover the large field of candidates vying for the White House, the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer assigned each reporter a candidate to track. The Reporters' Blog, updated weekly, contains updates on the campaigns, including events, major speeches and online news." 07-07

12. Michael Phelps: Greatest Olympian (Time.com)
    "At the Beijing Water Cube around 10:30AM, Michael Phelps swam two races, and won more gold medals. He broke two more world records, and got himself a new title: the most decorated Olympic athlete of all time."
    
    "He now has five gold meals in these Olympics, and 11 in his career, moving past Mark Spitz, U.S. track and field legend Carl Lewis, ex-Soviet gymnast Larissa Latynina, and Finish distance runner Paavo Nurmi for the all-time record." 08-08

13. -How Fast Can a Human Go? (Time.com)
    "Usain Bolt may have just broken the human speed limit. Last week, he took two gold medals in the Olympic 100m, shattering his own world record with a time of 9.69 secs., and the 200m with a time of 19.3 secs., obliterating by two-hundredths of a second the long-standing world record Michael Johnson set at the Atlanta Games in 1996." 08-08

14. Bolt Lowers 100-Meter Mark to 9.58 (ESPN.com)
    "Usain Bolt crossed the finish line, saw his record-setting time on the clock and spread his arms as if he were soaring like a bird."
    
    "The Jamaican shattered the world record again Sunday, running 100 meters in 9.58 seconds at the world championships to turn his much-anticipated race against Tyson Gay into a one-man show."
    
    "That was 0.11 seconds faster than the mark he set last year at the Beijing Olympics -- the biggest improvement in the 100-meter record since electronic timing began in 1968." 08-09

15. Is Running Really Bad for the Knees? (Time.com)
    "The common wisdom is that regular running or vigorous sport-playing during youth subjects the joints to so much wear and tear that it increases a person's risk of developing osteoarthritis later in life. Studies have suggested that may be at least partly true: in one study of about 5,000 women published in 1999, researchers found that women who actively participated in heavy physical sports in their teenage years, or weight-bearing activities in middle age, had a higher than average risk of developing hip osteoarthritis by age 50."
    
    "But over the past few years an emerging body of research has begun to show the opposite, especially when it comes to running. Not only is there no connection between running and arthritis, the new studies say, but running — and perhaps regular, vigorous exercise generally — may even help protect people from joint problems later on." 12-09

16. -Jesse Owens, Great Athlete of the 20th Century (Wikipedia.org)
    "James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens (September 12, 1913 – March 31, 1980) was an American track and field athlete who specialized in the sprints and the long jump. He participated in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany, where he achieved international fame by winning four gold medals: one each in the 100 meters, the 200 meters, the long jump, and as part of the 4x100 meter relay team. He was the most successful athlete at the 1936 Summer Olympics, a victory more poignant and often noted because Adolf Hitler had intended the 1936 games to showcase his Aryan ideals and prowess. Germany did, however, win far more medals than any other competing nation."
    
    "The Jesse Owens Award, USA Track and Field's highest accolade for the year's best track and field athlete, is named after him, in honor of his significant career." 08-12

17. -Fanny Blankers Koen, Great Olympian (Olympics30.com)
    "Born in Holland in 1918 Francina Elsje Koen, is viewed by many experts as the greatest all-round track and field female athlete who ever lived. She was held in such high regard by her peers that she was awarded female athlete of the twentieth century in 1999 by the IAAF." 08-12

18. -08-09-12 Runner Finishes Relay With Broken Leg (CNN News)
    Manteo Mitchell "broke a bone in his left leg, USA Track and Field said in a news release. The 25-year-old, running the leadoff leg, felt his fibula snap with 200 meters to go. He had to finish or the United States would have been out of the event." 08-12

19. Steiner, Abby (Wikipedia)
    Provides biographical information on the record-holding sprinter. 12-02