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...stage deep in the fifth set where I was about to ask the umpire, 'Can we just arm-wrestle for it?'" MARK KNOWLES, Bahamian tennis player who, together with doubles partner Daniel Nestor, defeated Simon Aspelin and Todd Perry after 6 hr. 9 min. of play in Wimbledon's longest-ever match...
...weren't able to." In Cambodia, that challenge is unique. Petit and his Cambodian co-prosecutor Chea Leang must build their case concerning crimes committed more than a quarter of a century ago. Of all the war crimes he has dealt with, "this is the longest elapsed time between the acts and accountability," says Petit. "It presents issues with the state of memory and the state of documents ... There is the issue of the age of the perpetrators as well." Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot died in 1998; his surviving lieutenants, in their 70s and 80s, may not live...
...With the government and the central bank coordinating more closely, the economy slowly revived. It's now in full swing, enjoying one of its longest postwar expansions. GDP grew 3.2% in the last fiscal year and the Nikkei stock index is up 66% in three years. Spending is up, wages are up, even property prices are rising again, and unemployment is at an eight-year low. With conditions improving, Fukui has made no secret of his desire to end the anomalous zero-interest era, saying he favors acting early and in small steps. In March, the BOJ declared...
Such powerful connections become even more important as the inevitable illnesses or widowhood of late life lead us to lean on the people we've known the longest. Even siblings who drift apart in their middle years tend to drift back together as they age. "The relationship is especially strong between sisters," who are more likely to be predeceased by their spouses than brothers are, says Judy Dunn, a developmental psychologist at London's Kings College. "When asked what contributes to the importance of the relationship now, they say it's the shared early childhood experiences, which cast a long...
...just past 1:00 a.m., June 28, 1865, a few tilting spins of the earth beyond the year's longest day. And in the Bering Strait, the hazy rose-colored summer-dawn breaking over the blue-white ice-floes crowding its waters revealed a curious tableau: framed by the dark distant, snow-crowned headlands to the east and west and, at a lower elevation, the two, flat- and sheer-sided Diomede Islands tucked between those mainland heights, rose a forest of masts, sails, and rigging. Closer inspection revealed a listing, three-masted whaleship. Moored...