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| MARTIN LUTHER KING |
| Nobel Prize winner Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. originated the nonviolence strategy within the activist civil rights movement. King was born on January 15, 1929, in
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| MAGIC JOHNSON |
| Joining the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association in 1979, Earvin "Magic" Johnson, Jr. (born 1959) became one of basketball's most popular stars.
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BILL CLINTON |
William Jefferson (Bill) Clinton (born 1946) won the Democratic nomination for the presidency in 1992 and then
defeated incumbent George Bush to become the 42nd… more
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Cal Ripken, Jr. (born 1960) holds many records in professional baseball, but it is his breaking of Lou Gehrig's record of 2,131 consecutive games played that especially endears him to his admirers, who call him the "Iron Man" of baseball. ...
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Many people believe that athletes today are spoiled and will not play with injuries. In some cases that may be true. Boston Bruins forward Cam Neely, however, is not one of those players. In 1991 he suffered a severe knee injury that almos...
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"Skating, passing, shooting. The whole game is so exciting, so fast, so fun!"--Cammie Granato. Cammie Granato was born to play hockey. Along with her four brothers she played the game almost every day growing up. Unlike her brothers, howev...
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In the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, Carl Lewis (born 1961) became the first athlete, since Jesse Owens in 1936, to win four gold medals in Olympic competition. In 1996 he competed in the long jump event at the Summer Olympics in Atlanta, ...
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"I just want to play golf."--Casey Martin. Professional golfer Casey Martin would like to be able to enjoy walking along the beautiful courses of the Professional Golfers' Association (PGA) Tour. Unfortunately, he was born with a disease t...
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Cecil Fielder hits home runs further and more often than any other player in baseball today. In 1990 he became only the eleventh hitter in major league history to hit 50 or more home runs in a single season. From 1990 to 1992, Fielder beca...
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Chamique Holdsclaw--the six-foot-two-inch forward for the University of Tennessee Lady Vols basketball team--is a winner. She has won seven straight championships--four at Christ the King High School and three consecutive national champion...
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Chanda Rubin was practically born with a tennis racket in her hand. She came from a tennis-playing family and grew up on the court her father built in the backyard. Rubin has now gone from her backyard to the most important arenas in the s...
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At six-feet-four-and-3/4-inches tall and 254 pounds, Charles Barkley of the Houston Rockets is built more like a football lineman than a professional basketball player. His body earned him the nickname, "The Round Mound of Rebound," and hi...
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Chris Webber has been a star basketball player since the eighth grade. That was when college recruiters began to take notice of his exceptional skills. His basketball career has taken him many different places. He was the main man of the "...
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Christy Martin works hard at her career. She spends hours training and practicing, sharpening her skills in the gym to become the best in her profession. What makes Martin unique, however, is that she is a woman in the male-dominated sport...
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Portland Trail Blazer guard Clyde "The Glide" Drexler is a different kind of superstar--a superstar who never seeks to call attention to himself. Often compared to Michael Jordan, Drexler has become one of the top players in the National B...
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Running back Curtis Martin of the New York Jets has been running his entire life. Growing up, he had to run from the crime and drugs that ravaged his neighborhood. At the University of Pittsburgh Martin had to convince the critics who doub...
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Imagine being a professional baseball player and not being able to hear the crowd cheer, the crack of the bat, or even the umpire calling balls and strikes right behind you. If you can imagine that, you will begin to understand what life i...
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Cynthia Cooper is a great basketball player. For years she could not make money playing the game she loved in the United States. Finally, in 1997, her dream came true when the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) was formed. Coop...
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