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...illicit advantage over rival Leinster in the dying moments of a European Cup tournament quarter-final match in April. The goal: have a player simulate an open wound in order to exploit an exemption to substitution rules that allows players who've already left the game to return in place of those too bloodied to continue. In the Harlequins' case, that meant getting winger Tom Williams to secretly bite into a synthetic blood capsule, then sending him off as "injured" just in time to bring a place-kicking specialist back on to take a potentially game-winning penalty kick...
...case could easily be made that state fairs remain the worst place to find healthy food but there is general agreement that Iowa's famous fair - held for 11 days in mid-August - is offering a few more nutritious options, including more foods cooked in trans fat free oil. The trick is finding the stuff - and getting more fairgoers to eat it. The lousy economy also may not be helping. "It's a growing trend that as consumers are looking for and demanding more options that are lower in calories and fat, smaller portions, more healthful, the vendors are responding...
...families of some of the victims. Robert Black, a professor emeritus of Scots Law at Edinburgh University and one of the legal architects of the Camp Zeist trial, tells TIME that he is relieved by Al-Megrahi's release. "Al-Megrahi should never have been convicted in the first place," he says. "It's totally inexplicable that a court could have felt the evidence against him justified a guilty verdict...
...those characteristics that Semenya's competitors see in the world champ, leading them to predict - and hope - that her forthcoming gender results will leave her ineligible to compete with women. "Just look at her," barked Mariya Savinova, the fifth-place finisher from Russia, following Wednesday's race. Italian Elisa Piccione, who finished sixth, was equally severe: "These kinds of people should not run with us. For me, she's not a woman. She's a man." She also outran them both - and not even a gender test can change that...
...elements from other Arab countries, taking advantage of the widespread despair and frustration in Gaza brought on by the ongoing economic siege. While Hamas is currently enforcing the cease-fire it adopted seven months ago at the close of Israel's Gaza invasion, the economic siege remains largely in place - although if Egyptian-mediated negotiations over the fate of captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit are successfully resolved, that might prompt Israel to ease the pressure...