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...bother with Athens? "I still have Olympic dreams," he says, flashing the first of many smiles. "I'm giving myself a bonus." He wants it in gold. Racewalking's weird look is one reason why the Olympic family treats it like a misunderstood stepchild. Walkers can blame the rules, which require that one foot touch the ground at all times and, from the time the lead foot hits the ground, the lead leg be fully straight. Sounds simple, but try doing it for the nearly four hours that it takes a world-class racer to cover the 50 km (nearly...
...Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), the human form of mad cow disease. The government estimates that 141 people have died from vCJD since the illness was identified in 1995. Air of Regret SWITZERLAND The government apologized to Russia as investigators concluded that Swiss air traffic control problems were partly to blame when a Russian passenger jet and a DHL cargo plane collided over Germany in July 2002, killing 71. The Russian crew heeded instructions from an air traffic controller that took them into the cargo plane's path. The controller was murdered in February in a suspected revenge attack...
Inside the Scandal What went wrong and who's to blame for turning Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison into a house of horrors...
Like the pre-exam complexion of many a stressed-out student, today’s selection of bananas in the dining halls might not glow as brightly as usual. Though the bananas can’t blame the Core Curriculum, their less-than-golden appearance is also work-related...
...America's own worst encounter with a Mr. Hyde side abroad came in 1969, when a young journalist named Seymour Hersh first broke a story about the massacre of scores of Vietnamese civilians at the village of My Lai. The remedy at the time was to blame it all on Lt. William Calley, an officer in charge on the day. My Lai may simply have been a symptom, however, of a war in which American forces were ranged not only against communist insurgents, but against a substantial proportion of the civilian population who supported them. My Lai was hardly...