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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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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. In November 1991, Magic Johnson stunned the sportsworld with his announce...
About 50 pages (15,105 words) in 6 products
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Goalie Manon Rheaume has always been a trendsetter. She was the first woman to play junior hockey in Canada, the first woman to play in the National Hockey League (NHL), and the first woman to play professional roller hockey. Throughout he...
About 10 pages (2,856 words) in 2 products
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Canadian hockey player Mario Lemieux (born 1965) was known for his speed and finesse, often compared to such greats as Wayne Gretzky and Guy Lafleur. After his retirement, Lemieux became one of the first players in professional sports to o...
About 37 pages (10,983 words) in 3 products
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Marion Jones seems to have wings on her feet. Her great speed carried her across the finish line first in the 100-meter sprint at the 1997 World Track and Field Championships, earning her the title of "The World's Fastest Woman." The speed...
About 24 pages (7,203 words) in 2 products
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The quarterback is the most important player on a football team. His job is to direct the team's offense and make big plays. One of the best playmakers in the National Football League (NFL) is Mark Brunell of the Jacksonville Jaguars. Brun...
About 17 pages (5,160 words) in 2 products
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Mark McGwire, the hard-slugging first baseman of the St. Louis Cardinals, belted his way into the record books in 1998 with the greatest home-run-hitting display ever. He pounded 70 home runs, smashing New York Yankee Roger Maris's single-...
About 28 pages (8,453 words) in 3 products
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To understand how Mark Messier plays hockey, one need only hear his two nicknames: "Moose" and "The Terminator." With a rare combination of power and speed, Messier is one of the most complete players in hockey. Between 1979 and 1991, Mess...
About 20 pages (6,045 words) in 3 products
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Marshall Faulk has always had to move fast. He grew up in an area where if you got caught, you might not survive. Football kept Faulk on the move, from New Orleans, Louisiana, to San Diego State University. There he set numerous National C...
About 19 pages (5,550 words) in 2 products
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Some athletes are born winners; other have to work hard to succeed. Tennis star Martina Hingis is both. Named after legendary champion Martina Navratilova, she has great natural ability that she has worked for 14 years to develop. In 1997 ...
About 38 pages (11,358 words) in 3 products
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Martina Navrotilova (born 1956) was ranked number one in female tennis. She won 18 grand slam titles and broke the 1996 record for total victories. The clouds gathered, the sky darkened, and the summer rain fell on the grass, center court ...
About 38 pages (11,372 words) in 5 products
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Mary Pierce hits the ball as hard as or harder than any other female tennis player in the world. At the 1995 Australian Open she blew away Arantxa Sánchez Vicario to win her first ever Grand Slam tennis tournament. The victory may f...
About 21 pages (6,420 words) in 2 products
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American sprinter Maurice Greene's mouth runs almost as quickly as his legs. Since he was a young child he predicted he would someday be the fastest man in the world. Greene did little to back up his promise until the summer of 1997. It wa...
About 11 pages (3,301 words) in 2 products
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"I know I'm going to score, I'm going to rebound and play defense and no one can get in the way of that."--Nikki McCray. Nikki McCray is one of the best female basketball players in the world. In 1995 she led the University of Tennessee La...
About 12 pages (3,696 words) in 2 products
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Mia Hamm has always been around people who can fly. Her father is a U.S. Air Force pilot, and she is married to a Marine Corps flyer. On the soccer field Hamm has always been a supersonic jet. She was the youngest player ever on the U.S. W...
About 13 pages (3,901 words) in 2 products
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In 1989 Michael Chang was told he couldn't win the French Open, one of tennis' important Grand Slam tournaments along with the Australian Open, Wimbledon, and the U.S. Open. The players he faced were all bigger and stronger than the five-f...
About 18 pages (5,523 words) in 2 products
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Michael Irvin has always had a big appetite. Growing up in a family of 19, Irvin had to fight for food. Today, Irvin eats up defensive backs as one of the premier receivers in the National Football League (NFL). Irvin teams up with quarter...
About 26 pages (7,804 words) in 2 products
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In 1996 Michael Johnson hoped to accomplish a feat no one has ever achieved. He wanted to become the first sprinter to ever win gold medals in the 200- and 400-meter dashes at the same Olympics. Johnson, the number-one-ranked sprinter in b...
About 20 pages (6,011 words) in 3 products
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Basketball superstar Michael Jordan (born 1963) is one of the most successful, popular, and wealthy athletes in college, Olympic, and professional sports history. Michael Jordan was born on February 17,1963. He did not make the high school...
Study Pack: 2 Biographies, 3 Summaries, 5 Essays, 1 Quotes
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In 1991 Mike Powell of the United States broke the longest-standing track-and-field world record--in the long jump. In the same event he also defeated one of the great athletes of all time--Carl Lewis of the United States--for the first ti...
About 11 pages (3,223 words) in 2 products
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In 1991 soccer forward Michelle Akers was on the top of the world. She had led the U.S. women's national soccer team to the first-ever World Women's Soccer Championships and experts called her "the Michael Jordan of women's soccer." Then, ...
About 11 pages (3,386 words) in 2 products
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At 15 years of age Michelle Kwan exploded on the figure skating scene, winning both the 1996 U.S. and World Figure Skating Championships. Over the next two years she solidified her spot as one of the best skaters in the world, winning the ...
About 31 pages (9,328 words) in 4 products
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Miguel Induráin grew up working on a farm in the countryside of Spain. This early training paid off when it came time to begin his career in one of the most physically demanding sports in the world--long-distance bicycle racing. Des...
About 14 pages (4,050 words) in 3 products
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No one can ever call Mike Piazza a quitter. Despite being the 1,389th player taken in the 1988 major league draft, Piazza, who plays for the Los Angeles Dodgers, has become the best catcher in major league baseball through hard work and de...
About 22 pages (6,607 words) in 3 products
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Mitch Richmond is the best-kept secret in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The shooting guard of the Sacramento Kings has averaged over twenty-one points per game in each of his first eight seasons, only the seventh NBA player to...
About 14 pages (4,116 words) in 2 products
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Mo Vaughn, the big first baseman of the Boston Red Sox, scares many pitchers in the American League (AL). He stands six feet one inch tall and weighs 240 pounds. Vaughn wears gold chains and a scowl on his face that worries even the fierce...
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Tommy Moe was a two-time loser as a teenager. Twice he was caught smoking marijuana and kicked off ski teams. In order to help his son, his dad forced Moe to work long hours at back-breaking work. Though it was hard at the time, Moe now sa...
About 8 pages (2,273 words) in 1 product
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Monica Seles is a fantastic tennis player who hits the ball as hard as any woman in history. She is also famous for the grunts she makes when she swings that seem to make the ball go even faster. Seles is the number-one ranked woman tennis...
About 28 pages (8,359 words) in 3 products
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All his life, Tyrone "Muggsy" Bogues has been told to come back to play when he grows up. At five-feet-three inches, he has always been the shortest player on whichever basketball team he joined. He has also been one of the best. When peop...
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