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The true story of the 1986 U.S. National Gymnastics champion whose lifelong dream was to compete in the Olympics, until anorexia, injuries, and coaching abuses nearly destroyed her

Fanciful dreams of gold medals and Nadia Comaneci led Jennifer Sey to become a gymnast at the age of six. She was a natural at the sport, and her early success propelled her family to sacrifice everything to help her become, by age eleven, one of America’s elite, competing at prestigious events worldwide alongside such future gymnastics’ luminaries as Mary Lou Retton.

But as she set her sights higher and higher—the senior national team, the World Championships, the 1988 Olympics—Sey began to change, putting her needs, her health, and her well-being aside in the name of winning. And the adults in her life refused to notice her downward spiral.

In Chalked Up Sey reveals the tarnish behind her gold medals. A powerful portrait of intensity and drive, eating disorders and stage parents, abusive coaches and manipulative businessmen, denial and the seduction of success, it is the story of a young girl whose dreams would become eclipsed by the adults around her. As she recounts her experiences, Sey sheds light on the destructiveness of our winning-is-everything culture where underage and underweight girls are celebrated and on the need for balance in children’s lives.

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Drop that quotation/sample/collage, sir! An enlightening, amusing, and frightening look at how the growth of intellectual property law is making us all less free to say and think what we want.

In 1998 university professor and professional art prankster Kembrew McLeod trademarked the phrase "freedom of expression" as a joke, an amusing if dark way to comment on how intellectual property law is increasingly being used to fence off the culture and restrict the way we're allowed to express ideas. But what's happened in recent years to intellectual property law is no joke and has had repercussions on our culture and our everyday lives. The trend toward privatization of—melodies, genes, public space, the English language—means an inevitable clash of economic values against the value of free speech, creativity, and shared resources. Our irreplaceable cultural commons is being sectioned up and sold off to the highest bidders and the most aggressive litigators.

In Freedom of Expression®, Kembrew McLeod gathers topics as diverse as hip-hop music and digital sampling, the patenting of seeds and human genes, folk and blues music, visual collage art, electronic voting, the Internet and computer software. In doing so, he connects this rapidly accelerating push to pin down everything as a piece of private property to its effects on music, art and science.

In much the same way Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation tied together disparate topics to paint an alarming picture of the food industry, and written in a witty style that brings to mind media pranksters like Al Franken, Ken Kesey, and Abbie Hoffman, Freedom of Expression® uses intellectual property law as the focal point to show how economic concerns are seriously eroding creativity and free speech. It’s later than we know..
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Title: Hit hard, not low: ethics and civility standards are seen as deterrents to overzealous advocacy. Consult the codes: if you know the rules well, you can use them against opponents.
Author: Michael A. Stratton
Publication:Trial (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 2003
Publisher: Association of Trial Lawyers of America
Volume: 39 Issue: 9 Page: 60(4)

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Title: Helping an emerging export industry? Ashley Balls wonders if over-zealous immigration officials may be hampering the lucrative foreign student market.(Issues with Balls)
Author: Ashley Balls
Publication:NZ Business (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2004
Publisher: Profile Publishing Ltd.
Volume: 18 Issue: 2 Page: 52(1)

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Title: The big box factor on overzealous regulations.(OPINION)
Author: Neil Pascale
Publication:Powersports Business (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 4, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 9 Issue: 12 Page: 6(1)

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Title: Were Nurses Overzealous in Obtaining Consent for Organ Donation?(Brief Article)
Author: A. David Tammelleo
Publication:Nursing Law's Regan Report (Newsletter)
Date: April 1, 2001
Publisher: Medica Press, Inc.
Volume: 41 Issue: 11 Page: 4

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