There are times when Olympic hopeful Dotsie Bausch is mentoring troubled teens and she sees her old self in them.
It scares her to death.
She remembers what she looked like at half her current weight, cheeks sunken and bones seemingly ready to break through her paper-thin skin. She remembers the pain in the pit of her stomach after she’d portion out 35 calories of food for the day, and … More
In other cities, welders pull up to a job in oversize pickup trucks rattling with tools and pressurized tanks of gas. In Portland, Oregon, at least one arrives by bicycle, towing his gear in a two-wheeled trailer.
Mike Cobb pedals around town fixing iron handrailings and welding kettle stands for coffee-roasting companies  … More