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...good Lutz is a clean outside edge on the takeoff. The U.S. women, including Kwan, above, tend to "flutz," or fudge it by shifting from the outside to the inside edge just before launching into the air. Sarah Hughes has been particularly penalized for this flaw, and to correct the problem, she does not enter the jump with as deep an outside edge...
...could be done about cerebral palsy, a disorder caused by damage to the motor centers of the brain. But pediatric medicine has come a long way since then, both in intervention before birth, with better prenatal care and various techniques to postpone delivery, and surgical interventions after birth to correct physical deficiencies. So although the incidence of cerebral palsy seems to be increasing (because the odds of preemies surviving are so much better), so too are the number of success stories...
Many ordinary Saudis agree that Abdullah, unlike most of their princes, realizes the correct answer to that question is yes. To the surprise of many who knew him as the stodgy, longtime commander of the 75,000-strong Saudi Arabian National Guard, he emerged well before Sept. 11 as a rare Saudi leader in advocating internal reform and a more assertive foreign policy. As Abdullah's profile rises, no other prince matches his popularity, which is largely due to the Saudi perception of him as straight-talking and above corruption, especially compared with some of his conspicuously super-rich brothers...
...Crown Prince is probably correct when he says that bin Laden's al-Qaeda terrorist network poses no immediate threat to Saudi stability. But the long-term danger is creating a bin Laden Generation: legions of kids schooled in puritanical Islam, lacking jobs and harboring hatred for the U.S. and Israel - and for their own rulers too. "There is a clash between tradition and modernity," says Saudi researcher Mai Yamani. "Vast wealth has been spent on education, but it is a population that cannot function in this demanding global economy...
...because its venue, the Gallery of Social/Political Art (GSPA), is tucked neatly away behind the White Star Restaurant in Copley Square, and partly because the the pieces in the show aren’t exactly what I expected. When I scanned the pieces on display, the very un-politically correct question popped up in my mind: Where are all the poor people...