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...here? I'm on a grass court and it's the slowest court I've played on this year.' " Veteran tour pro and former Wimbledon doubles champion Jonas Bjorkman says the slower grass courts have homogenized the professional game. "There is a danger that we will have only one type of player soon because everyone is growing up on courts that are roughly the same speed," he says. To underline the point: Federer's great rival, Rafael Nadal, is widely considered a clay-court specialist, but has still made the final at Wimbledon the last two years...
...Assuming there is no resolution to the dispute, the campaign will use Obama's reluctance to join McCain as a spear point aimed at Obama's claims to be a different, more transparent type of politician. Even before the weekend, the war of words was already heating up. Obama campaign manager David Plouffe released a statement attacking McCain for playing politics. "Apparently they would rather contrive a political issue than foster a genuine discussion about the future of our country," Plouffe said. McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds quickly struck back with a zinger. "Barack Obama requires more preconditions to meet with...
...fierce rain storms of recent days have stopped (temporarily we're told), for those of us who are relatively high-and-dry there's a strange disconnect between what we see out our windows and what we know is going on just a few miles away. As I type from my Des Moines home on the afternoon of Friday the 13th, I see my neighbor mowing the lawn, dogs barking, kids playing, normal life. It's sunny and dry. But I've just received an e-mail that in downtown Des Moines, about 10 minutes away, a voluntary evacuation...
...parents are confused, so are physicians and medical researchers. There's little doubt that being obese puts inactive youngsters at a higher risk for several health conditions, including Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease. But almost no studies have been done evaluating the pros and cons of kids being fat yet active. Plus, reports on adults in similar situations have conflicted. Since the 1970s, doctors at the nonprofit Cooper Institute in Dallas have gathered data from more than 100,000 patients who have been weighed, measured and made to run on treadmills while their vital signs...
...major general, suggests that having a military officer on the ticket is a mixed blessing. "The great strength of a military guy would be credibility on national security," says Scales, a military historian and former commandant of the Army War College. "The great weakness is that he lacks any type of regional attraction, which, to my mind, is really the primary purpose in picking a running mate." Indeed, military officers often move every three or four years, essentially making them political transients...