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...each Olympic Games compete for records that would be valid only for the Games of that year. Ralferd C. Freytag Victoria, Canada It was a delight to watch all the athletes participating in the Athens Games. Hats off to the authorities for making a great event! As an Indian, I was embarrassed, however, by my country's performance at these Olympics, since we came home with only one medal. I hope we Indians learned something from it. That most of the celebrities involved in the Olympic torch relay in New Delhi were not athletes was proof enough of the Indian...
...nation, despite claims made by many. Sport in India is "managed" by the government, and very halfheartedly at that. The politicians at the top truly run things. There are hardly any private sponsors. Politicians use sports for their own ends. At present there is no consistent public support for Indian sports and no hope for a large number of medals. This has to wait for another generation and more economic progress. Ullal V. Nayak Bangalore, India...
...Grasse was once famous for its fields of wildflowers, which used to be laboriously hand pressed to make perfumes. But most of the flowers are now grown in cheap-labor countries like Bulgaria and China. Grasse also imports hundreds of exotic ingredients, such as Indian sandalwood and Madagascar patchouli leaf. These days, however, synthetics often mimic traditional perfume ingredients like ambergris (a substance found in a sperm whale's intestines) and musk (taken from a gland near the foreskin of a Himalayan deer...
Back in the seventies, when outsourcing only happened to muscle jobs, the solution was simple: job skills. Get some information age training and get an information age job. But today’s problem is trickier. Thanks to the communications revolution, millions of better educated, lower paid Indian and Chinese workers can compete for American white-collar jobs—our jobs. And they...
DIED. LARRY DESMEDT, 55, biker and custom-motorcycle builder known as Indian Larry who was a legend among biking enthusiasts; of injuries he suffered while performing an impromptu stunt for fans in a parking lot; in Charlotte, N.C. Once a favored subject of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, who admired his "crash and burn" lifestyle, Desmedt won attention for a chopper he built in 1996 and dubbed Grease Monkey...