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...Intelligence agencies in other parts of the world drew similar conclusions awhile ago. The CIA hosted a gay-pride celebration for its staff and colleagues from the National Security Agency back in 2000. A French counterintelligence official says that "in nearly 20 years in this business, I've never heard sexual orientation mentioned at all in discussing recruitment policies or individuals, including people whose homosexuality is a matter of virtual public record...
...These findings confirm what many in this sport have worried about for years: as cheerleading has grown more competitive, athletes are willing to take greater risks. And because there are no established regulations for reporting cheerleading injuries, "there are definitely more accidents out there that we haven't even heard about yet," says the study's lead author, Fred Mueller...
...Robert Maglakelidze is the amiable, round-faced director of the museum. He was in his office this week not long after the bombing started . "I heard several airplanes roaring overhead," he told TIME through an interpreter at a Tbilisi café." There was a big flash and a terrible noise. We thought the whole building was falling down. " The percussion and fragments from what human rights monitors confirm as a cluster bomb blew out the windows but the building stood. Maglakelidze says he was anxious to stay on to do what he could to protect the museum, but two days...
...fact that two of his races were broadcast live, at a baseball stadium and in a football arena, back home. "I want to raise the bar for the sport of swimming as high as it can get in the U.S.," he said. "We've come a long way; I heard that in Ravens stadium [in Baltimore, Phelps' hometown], they were watching the 400 medley relay live with 70,000 people. I heard that at the Cincinnati Reds game yesterday, they showed the 100 fly live. I heard there was an announcement at Yankee Stadium. People all over the place...
...pleasures of the Olympics is to revel in performances from athletes you've never heard of before. When multimillionaire professionals like tennis' Williams sisters share in the Olympic limelight, it's heartening that they want to represent their nation. But while the participation of such mega-stars can sometimes take away from the achievement of lesser-knowns, homegrown talent may have the upperhand in women's tennis this year. Six days into the Beijing Games, both Serena and Venus had exited, the older sister dispatched by none other than China...