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...back to start movements from down the middle or on the flanks," Bielsa says. Still, this is an underrated quality, perhaps because the Argentine team is already richly endowed with playmakers?none more creative than the midfield genius Juan Sebastian Veron. Bielsa, many commentators suggest, doesn't need an extra goalmaker; he needs a forward who concentrates on the business of slamming the ball into the back of the net. Ergo, he needs Batistuta...
...about handing out more cash when billions of dollars in economic aid have frequently failed to produce growth over the last 50 years. As O'Neill puts it, "These problems are solvable . . . and may even be doable with resources that are already available." Translation: there's no guarantee of extra U.S. money...
...much for the heart. University of Bristol scientists studied 2,341 British women ages 60 to 79 and found that heavy housework--vacuuming, washing windows and floors--had no effect on their health or weight. Women who spent 21/2 hours a week doing such chores may have burned extra calories but were neither less obese nor had lower resting heart rates than those who did no cleaning at all. --By Sora Song...
...cops are on loan from Los Angeles, sent to tiny Nightmute, Alaska, to help an old pal, the police chief, solve the crime. They are, though, carrying some extra psychological baggage. Will is a great cop but has planted evidence to make his case against a child molester. Hap knows what happened and is going to talk to internal affairs, thus destroying a legendary career. So Will has a motive to kill him. And--this is the best part--his judgment is clouded by sleep deprivation. It is summertime in this land of the midnight sun, and the perpetual daylight...
...bicycle tour of Nova Scotia's south coast last August. My group was riding from our waterside inn at Hubbards Bay to Lunenburg, an 18th century seafaring town. The first day had seemed easy to this Manhattan bicycle commuter, so I elected the extra-mileage option. As the other members, most of them boomers like me, climbed into the support van provided by Freewheeling Adventures Tours, I set off on my Trek hybrid. Five miles later I spotted a monster hill looming ahead. Behind it was another, and then another. As I panted upward, suddenly the van whirred into sight...