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...Bhutan's Chhoden, her Olympic competition will be over this week, but not because of any financial intrigue. In last week's qualification round, Chhoden placed 54th out of 64 archers, a better ranking than she had expected but still low enough to foretell her likely exit in the first elimination round. "I'm just glad I wasn't 63rd or 64th out of 64," she says. "That would have been a little embarrassing for Bhutan." Instead, Chhoden will be able to spend the rest of her fortnight in Athens teaching people where her homeland is and, more important...
...three-month period. The fee was widely attacked by doctors and patients alike as awkward and onerous. But along with costlier fees for unreferred visits to specialists, a larger patient share of drug costs and a stop to reimbursements for eyeglasses and dental prostheses, it has helped the country round the corner. Health Minister Ulla Schmidt announced this summer that for the first time in 10 years, Germany's public-health system was no longer in the red. The number of doctor visits was down 10% for the first quarter compared to the same period in 2003, as were working...
...first overt signal that these next two weeks may really be about sport, not war. The raucous scene on Omonia Square in downtown Athens turned out to be simply a bunch of Iraqi soccer fans celebrating the surprise victory of their team in a preliminary round of the Olympic Games. They chanted for a while, joyous smiles disarming any who felt threatened, and after a few minutes, peacefully rambled off down a side street...
CARLY PATTERSON AGE 16 HOMETOWN Baton Rouge, La. EVENT Gymnastics THE DRAMA The world's No. 2 in the all-around competition, she risks the most difficult dismount from the balance beam of any competitor: a round off back handspring double Arabian. THE COMPETITION It's formidable but not invincible. In the team contest, the U.S. must vault past the solid Romanian and Chinese squads. For the individual all-around title, Patterson faces three-time world champion Svetlana Khorkina of Russia and newcomer Daniela Sofronie of Romania...
...same year he learned to swim, Debbie, a Baltimore County school administrator, and Frank, a Maryland state trooper, decided to divorce. The couple had built a home on a fiveacre spread in Harford County, Md., more than 60 miles from the Baltimore pool where their children were training. The round-trip drives, sometimes twice a day, were wearying. Debbie wanted to move the family to Baltimore; Frank wasn't so sure. It was one more issue in a deteriorating relationship. Phelps and his sisters remained with their mother, and when Hilary and Whitney moved away for college, his bond with...