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...Indeed, to ensure that the country averts a face-losing performance on home ground, China's leaders are again revving up the sports machine, ending a reformist era during which the mainland began to take a more humanistic approach to sports. In the mid-1990s, amid a greater societal push for individual freedom, China reformed a punishing training system that had forced millions of children into athletic servitude just like the Soviet machine, which was its model. Chinese athletes were given extra help in attending university after retirement, and financial incentives offered the nation's sports stars a reason beyond...
...Travelers usually stop overnight in the Shi'a enclave of Kargil?a fragment of Muslim Central Asia that somehow materialized in India. From there, a mountainous wonderland unfolds. The road wanders past Lamayuru monastery (looming amid somber peaks that belong on the cover of some fantasy novel), skirts Alchi monastery (with its incomparable 12th century frescoes), and then it's on to Leh, where the crumbling royal palace towers over rooftop pizza restaurants. More monasteries dot the surrounding valley, along with turquoise lakes and rows of whitewashed Buddhist chortens...
...deepened by it. Thorne was Kerry's campaign manager in the 1972 congressional race, and there's no one whose judgment of people Kerry trusts more, say those who know them. He still calls Thorne often; these days, it's usually late at night from the road. And even amid a hectic presidential campaign, the Senator rarely gets back to Boston without making some time for Thorne, now a publisher and a financial broker. Some new realities have inevitably intruded on the intimacy of their old friendship--like the Secret Service agents tagging along for their 30-mile bicycle ride...
...apparatus for an overhaul, hammering the nation's spooks for their inability to piece together Osama bin Laden's plot--and raising new doubts about whether they are better positioned to detect the next one. Timed for release just before the start of the election season, the report landed amid galloping anxieties among U.S. intelligence and law-enforcement agencies about the imminence of another terrorist attack. U.S. officials say reports from agents and "code talk" picked up from extremists' e-mail point to a possible al-Qaeda attack before the Nov. 2 election. A counterterrorism official tells TIME that...
...homemakers, the bead entrepreneurs wrinkled their noses. Brianna wants to be a lawyer and Jianna, a marine biologist. But their ambitions have not deterred them from becoming active in the group founded 59 years ago as Future Homemakers of America (FHA). In 1999 in a quest to stay relevant amid steep membership declines, the group decided to rename itself the Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA). The FCCLA'S adult advisers say the new name better reflects the broader purpose of the group, which provides kids with opportunities to learn how to become leaders outside the classroom. According...