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Aurora, CO July 19, 2005 Members of Team Imua Polynesia paddles into shore after a training sesion at Aurora Resevoir. . They're preparing for next week's dragon boat races. Rick Giase/Special to the News

Aurora, CO July 19, 2005 Co-captain David Simms helps a team mate into a practice boat. Team Imua Polynesia practices for next week's dragon boat races at Aurora Resevoir. Rick Giase/Special to the News

FOR DIG. Bamboo in French Polynesia. Photo by Jules Strauss/California Academy of Sciences.

Aurora, CO July 19, 2005 Team Imua Polynesia practices for next week's dragon boat races at Aurora Resevoir. Rick Giase/Special to the News

Aurora, CO July 19, 2005 Emily Matner (left), Shawn Martinet and Lendau De Leguna and other members of Team Imua Polynesia practice for next week's dragon boat races at Aurora Resevoir. Rick Giase/Special to the News

Aurora, CO July 19, 2005 Chip Havens (right), a team member and technical advisor, gives tips to memebers ofTeam Imua Polynesia who was practicing for next week's dragon boat races at Aurora Resevoir. Rick Giase/Special to the News

Olin T. Ward and Clarence Watkins

Myrlie Evers-Williams and Lacy Steele in Hawaii

Michael and Carie Fay adopted their son, Josiah, after Michael's sister was beaten to death a year ago by her boyfriend in Hawaii while pregnate with Josiah. Josiah just turned a year old and Michael and Carie are speaking out about domestic violence as t

Grant Crowell in his office in Elgin, IL. Crowell was a cartoonist in Hawaii when Ward Churchill came to speak 10 years ago in Hawaii. At the time, Grant penned a cartoon critical of a professor at the school, and Churchill spoke and ripped Grant for the

Ironman competitor Sean Leenearts, cq, puts in some running mile as he trains, Monday Sept. 18, 2007 near Chatfield Reservoir. Leenearts, a longtime recreational triathlete from Highlands Ranch finally got into the Hawaii Ironman after 15 years of enterin

Two Denver executives, Scott Binder (Comcast) and Rich Kylberg (Communicom) are competing with 11 other CEOs for world's fittest CEOs at this years Ironman triathlon in Hawaii this month. (AHMAD TERRY ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS)