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To: techguerrilla who wrote (53529)	8/15/2004 7:40:16 PM
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Suma cares. She believes bill clinton.

To: techguerrilla who wrote (53529)	8/20/2004 12:58:33 AM
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John Perry Barlow* writes about getting back in shape after a life of neglect... barlow.typepad.com *John Perry Barlow is a retired Wyoming cattle rancher, a former lyricist for the Grateful Dead, and co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Since May of 1998, he has been a Fellow at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. He was born in Sublette County, Wyoming in 1947, was educated there in a one room schoolhouse, and graduated from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut with an honors degree in comparative religion in 1969. _____ More on Barlow at: eff.org

To: techguerrilla who wrote (53529)	8/20/2004 1:16:33 AM
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Phelps still in line for a mark ______________________________ 200 IM gold puts him 2 medals shy of Games record By Skip Myslenski Tribune staff reporter August 19, 2004, 10:44 PM CDT chicagosports.chicagotribune.com ATHENS -- Michael Phelps couldn't help himself. He just had to laugh out loud. Ever since Monday night, when his bronze medal in the 200-meter freestyle had been added to the bronze he won in the 400 free relay, he had not had to talk about trying to match the seven golds Mark Spitz won in 1972. But suddenly Thursday night he was confronting similar questions. Hours earlier he had won the 200 individual medley, making him the only male swimmer besides Spitz to win more than two individual golds in a single Games. It also had left him with six medals in the bank and two events to go, on track to match the record eight won in a single Games by Soviet gymnast Aleksandr Dityatin in 1980. That is why those similar questions arose and why Phelps couldn't help but laugh. "First it was seven, now it's eight," he said. "I can't get away from numbers." Phelps joined Spitz in the record book Thursday night with relative ease, winning the 200 IM in an Olympic-record 1 minute 57.14 seconds. This was more than a second slower than his world record but still good enough to beat teammate and silver medalist Ryan Lochte by 1.64 seconds. Phelps had enough reason to conserve himself by not going for the world record. A grand total of 33 minutes passed between the start of his IM and the start of his semifinal heat in the 100 butterfly. "Tonight was the toughest turnaround time I ever had," he said. "But … you're in a zone. You get your mind on the race coming up. You try to get your focus on what you're going to do." He swam the fastest time of the semis, an Olympic-record 51.61, and set the stage for his showdown with teammate Ian Crocker in Friday's final. Last summer at the world championships in Barcelona, Spain, Crocker beat Phelps in the 100 fly, prompting Phelps to tape a poster of Crocker on his bedroom wall in Baltimore for inspiration. Then last month at the Olympic trials in Long Beach, Calif., Crocker set a world record while beating him again, prompting Phelps to drop the 200 backstroke from his Games menu because that would allow him to better prepare for this race. So he is clearly intent on beating Crocker, who developed throat problems late last week and has struggled through a terrible Olympics. Crocker swam an anemic opening leg on the 400 free relay Sunday, dooming the U.S. to third place. Then Tuesday he failed to advance even to the semifinals of the 100 free. "The free has no bearing on my butterfly," he said after that failure. But Thursday he was only the third-fastest qualifier for the final with a 51.83. Phelps will end up with six golds if he takes the butterfly and the U.S. wins Saturday's medley relay, which it is expected to do. That also is reason enough for Phelps to keep smiling, which he did often Thursday night. "We're almost finished," he said. "I felt in the water, I swam fast, and that's all I can ask. I'm having fun at the Olympic Games, and the countdown has begun." The U.S. women also had a strong night, with Amanda Beard winning her first individual gold in the 200 breaststroke and Natalie Coughlin winning bronze in the 100 free, her fourth medal of the Games. Beard, adding an individual gold to the medley relay gold she won at Atlanta in 1996, used a great finishing kick to propel her past Australia's Leisel Jones in the final lap and allow her to touch in an Olympic-record 2:23.37. Beard had set an American record in winning a silver medal in the 200 IM Tuesday and has won six Olympic medals at three Games. "I'm a lot more experienced than I was in Atlanta and can strategize my race better than Atlanta, and that's helpful," she said. "It was a great race. Me and Leisel both just put it out there. It was great for the fans to watch. "I don't think the smile will come off my face for a while." Helene Elliott of the Tribune Olympic Bureau contributed to this report. Copyright © 2004, The Chicago Tribune