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...Front runner Pavena is an old foe: in 2003, a charitable foundation she runs that helps abused children filed a complaint that Chuwit employed underage girls. Chuwit said he never did so deliberately, and a court acquitted him in June after employees testified they had used forged IDs to get jobs in his massage parlors. If he wins the governorship, Chuwit promises to devote all his time to the task of cleaning up Bangkok?from cracking down on corruption to improving garbage collection?even forgoing the luxury of vacations abroad. He doesn't have much choice: a court is still...
...that differential that made Montreal track coach Daniel St.-Hilaire order the Best Runner, a "speed-optimization system" designed by Pierre-Edouard Sainsily, a biomechanical engineer in Bordeaux. The $58,000 device consists of video cameras, sensors and other data-collecting gadgetry that are positioned on a track and wired to a workstation mounted trackside. St.-Hilaire uses it to record the speed, acceleration, starting power and strength of athletes such as Nicolas Macrozonaris, 23, Canada's top male sprinter, who has run a 10.03-sec. 100 m. Ranked No. 19 in the world in 2003, Macrozonaris will probably need...
...Best Runner will allow Macrozonaris to dissect each part of his race and compare it directly with the world's best by examining the device's computer-generated graphs and charts. Sprinter Hank Palmer, who trains with Macrozonaris, says, "It will help me improve by showing me exactly what speed I have to be at at what part. I'll be able to memorize the perfect...
...trade. On New Year's Eve, a U.S. Navy vessel stopped a small fishing boat in the Arabian Sea. After a search, says a Western antinarcotics official, "they found several al-Qaeda guys sitting on a bale of drugs." In January U.S. and Afghan agents raided a drug runner's house in Kabul and found a dozen or so satellite phones. The phones were passed on to the CIA station in Kabul, which found that they had been used to call numbers linked to suspected terrorists in Turkey, the Balkans and Western Europe. And in March U.S. troops searching...
...will try to rekindle memories of Mark Spitz. And unlike Montreal's unfinished structure, the Athens Olympic stadium does, as of June, have a roof, though seats are another issue. No matter: the track is down, and on Aug. 24, Moroccan Hicham El Guerrouj, perhaps the greatest middle-distance runner of all time, will chase the 1,500-m gold medal that keeps eluding him. In the nearby Indoor Hall, tiny Brazilian gymnast Daiane dos Santos will spring all 4-ft. 7-in. of herself into impossible flips and twists. At the end of 17 hypercovered days, TV watchers...