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...looks as almost as tall as the beam is long. After the beam, Svetlana deflated and turned back into a too-skinny girl whose leotard was too short in the arms. She sunk into a chair sulking from sidelines until she got word that there had been a problem with the vault. For the first half of the competition, the vault had been set 5 cm. too low. For a gymnast, especially a tall one, this is the equivalent of removing a step in a flight of stairs...
Like all passionate collectors, pinheads are obsessed. And, they say, misunderstood. Leonard Braun, 65, wears a Barcelona T-shirt and an exoskeleton of pins, including a badge of honor that reads "Pinologist." His wife reckons he's juvenile. "She doesn't understand it, and that's a fundamental problem," says the retired physicist from Los Angeles. "But it's probably better than collecting race cars or women." Still, the absurdity of his passion hasn't escaped him: "At times I've had an out-of-body experience: I've seen this grown man trading pins on the ground like...
...bits of all these with "nuggets of wisdom" from arenas as diverse as football and 12-step programs. Sometimes what a coach does, says Kathleen Phillips, an in-house coach at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, the former management-consulting arm of Ernst & Young, is help a client see a problem--or a problem job--a different way. In that way, say proponents, coaching helps shore up weak points in their employees as well as build on their strengths...
Boomers who have delayed parenthood to pursue their careers have a special problem with nitpicking: by the time the kids are old enough to bring lice home, the aging parents are often too blind to see the nits. Reading glasses or a good magnifying glass can help. Meanwhile, Dr. Sydney Spiesel, a researcher at Yale, is developing a "nit detector"--a shampoo containing Blankophor, which he says will adhere to the lice and nits and make them visible under ultraviolet light. He plans to market the shampoo and a black light together, making the nitpicking process "Fun!" he says...
Europe's tax havens have historically been prone to abuse. The FATF report said that Liechtenstein's system for reporting suspicious transactions had long been inadequate, that there were no laws for exchanging information with international authorities about money laundering and that the resources devoted to tackling the problem were paltry. The country's laxity was underscored earlier this year during major political scandals in Germany. Investigators found that German politicians used Liechtenstein bank accounts to receive bribe money paid by the French oil giant Elf Aquitaine...