11.   But if gym class is kinder and gentler these days, it is also more goal-oriented.

12.   But in many ways preschool gym classes are for parents.

13.   But it is not unusual for a school board or legislature to be dominated by boomers who hated those military-style gym classes.

14.   But what if gym class meant time to practice your golf swing instead of hauling yourself to the top of a rope?

15.   But Vizcaino is helping the Yankees, substantively, wearing protective goggles that no image-conscious high school student would be caught wearing in gym class.

16.   Children routinely tuck inhalers, the little pumps that convert asthma medication into an inhalable mist, into their backpacks so they can take puffs before gym class.

17.   Carol wants Ed to represent her geeky favorite student because his bad grade in gym class might interfere with his college plans.

18.   During basketball games in gym class, one student complained that Gary was going to sweat on him and give him AIDS.

19.   Exercise opportunities for their children are limited because funding cuts have padlocked schoolyards and eliminated gym classes.

20.   Five days a week he performed this ritual, witnessed by coach Lee Smelser, who taught a gym class in the mornings.