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Appreciatively. But for all his effort, for all the crowd enthusiasm for all the genius of the move, Moseley ended up fourth - and medal-less - in the competition. In mogul skiing, each of the two tricks, as the jumps are called, account for only 12.5% of the score. "You have to have more than one jump in a race to win," said Janne Lahtela of Finland...
...hand, Saeed keeps scary company. In recent years, according to Pakistani and U.S. officials, he has become a key player in al-Qaeda. U.S. intelligence suspects that he helped funnel $100,000 to Mohamed Atta, ringleader of the Sept. 11 attacks. On the other hand, as Saeed's account of the 1994 abduction suggests, he is a complex character, neither entirely brutal nor cold. And his track record as a kidnapper is relatively benign; the American and three other Western tourists he took hostage at that time emerged unharmed after police raided Saeed's hideout and arrested...
...provided a powerful tool to help the quest to rekindle romance or just satisfy curiosity: the Internet. More and more former sweethearts are using websites like ussearch.com and classmates.com to locate one another. The sites report huge growth in the past five years but say lost-love searches account for only part of it. The sites do hear from happily reunited couples. Classmates received 235 lovers' thank-you notes...
...delegation to teach Chinese farmers how to raise igusa and weave tatami. "I had a slight feeling of dread," admits 33-year-old farmer Yasushi Furushima, who visited China a few years afterward. "But their quantity wasn't very good." China, of course, caught up fast: today, its exports account for more than two-thirds of the tatami market in Japan. In a last ditch measure to protect its farmers, Japan last year slapped import duties on Chinese tatami, along with leeks and shiitake mushrooms, other endangered cash crops. Bad move. China retaliated by putting tariffs on Japanese cars...
...Suzuki goes to his local bank branch, rents a safety deposit box and locks away some cash. The next day he comes back and takes some money out. He does this again and again. Finally an exasperated bank manager asks, "Suzuki-san, why don't you open a bank account...