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...Just four days after a spectacular win in the first major mountain stage of this year's Tour, the 24-year-old climbing specialist tested positive for the banned blood booster erythropoietin (EPO), French anti-doping agency officials told reporters. French police immediately took Riccò into custody, as the now familiar scene of chaos erupted, with photographers and name-calling fans swarming around his Saunier Duval team's yellow bus. The entire Spanish team subsequently pulled out of the competition before Thursday's start of stage...
...month straight, that gives cycling much of its built-in drama. It is also what makes it so susceptible to the temptation of pharmaceutical assistance. Well-funded teams go to great lengths to enhance strength and endurance, through both legal and, in some cases, illegal means. Anti-doping officials try their best to keep up with the latest techniques for avoiding detection. This tension inevitably casts a shadow on the other top competitors who have not tested positive, both those who adamantly shun doping and those who have managed to beat the blood and urine tests...
...deal so controversial in New Delhi is the antipathy many Indian politicians feel toward the U.S. During the cold war, India was a nonaligned nation but its leaders were friendlier with Moscow than they were with Washington. The country still has vibrant communist parties whose politicians reflect grass-roots anti-American sentiments that run through the country despite Indians' enthusiastic consumption of tight jeans, French fries and Friends. Doraiswamy Raja, national secretary for the Communist Party of India, accuses Singh of "succumbing to the pressures of American imperialism" by signing the nuclear deal, warning that the U.S. "has a grand...
...Tibetan Plateau at 15,000 feet (4,500 m). The salt is mixed with high-altitude herbs like spikenard that apparently calm the senses. After the scrub comes a slathering of Himalayan mountain mud containing fulvic acids. Known as silagit, it has been used for centuries as an anti-inflammatory agent and to improve circulation. The treatment is completed with a bath and either a head-and-shoulder massage (in Manila) or a full-body massage (in Bangkok). Massages are done to the sound of singing bowls - the standing bells common in Buddhist meditation...
...White House in 2000 that broadened McCain's appeal - and opened his eyes to his own potential clout. He ran as the candidate of reform - the anti-Establishment maverick - and while he lost, in the process he became the most popular politician in America. "That campaign changed him," says John Weaver, who was McCain's chief political adviser for a decade, until last summer when he left in a staff shake-up. "He became a rock star. On the trail he discovered all these new issues. How could he go back to the Senate and not talk about the need...