Your inner winner: Olympic contenders tell you how to get more mental muscles
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Four women Olympic athletes relate how they overcome problems such as nervousness, lack of self confidence, weight and diet, and conditioning. The athletes are Mia Hamm, soccer, Eileen Richetelli, diving, Rebecca Lobo, basketball, and Jearl Miles, track.
Publication Name: Mademoiselle
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0024-9394
Year: 1996
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An Indy winner, by gum
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Fred Frame of Exeter, NH, became the only New Englander to win the Indianapolis 500 in 1932. His mechanic smeared a pack of chewed gum under the radiator cap to prevent water from gushing out, a problem that would have caused him to quit the race.
Publication Name: Yankee
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0044-0191
Year: 1992
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Top-fuel dragster
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Tommy Johnson Jr, 25, is one of the youngest drivers of drag racing's fastest cars, the top-fuel dragsters. His dragster has a 4,000-plus horsepower engine and can go faster than 290 miles per hour.
Publication Name: Boys' Life
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0006-8608
Year: 1992
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