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Teaching. I really enjoy the challenge of figuring out how to help kids learn more and learn more effectively. I still can't believe I have a job doing something I really like.

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Landscaping.

Sports & Recreation > Summer Olympics 2008 Olympics: Prospects of new athlete doping scandals

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Recently, a friend of mine attended a dinner with a former member of the US Olympic Track and Field team and someone asked how many of the current athletes at the Olympic level are taking performance enhancing drugs.

His response?

Everyone.

Having spent significant amounts of time around a lot of very good athletes, some of whom carry aspirations of making Olympic teams, some of whom already have, it is a subject that comes up with some frequency and one that always inspires a great deal of debate.

Doping has been rampant within Track and Field and Cycling and almost every other...

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