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...qualification round for the team finals, each six member team can ask five gymnasts to compete on each event - floor, bars, beam and vault. The lowest score is omitted, and the top eight teams with the highest scores compete in the team finals. The U.S. women are the defending world champions, and are expected to battle with China and defending Olympic team champs Romania for the coveted team gold medal, which the Americans last won in the 1996 Atlanta Games with the Magnificent Seven. But without Peszek, all four of the girls' scores had to count, and thus there...
...Still, future protests seem inevitable, so long as the junta refuses to tackle Burma's woes - poverty, inflation, disease - and the opposition continues to survive against appalling odds. Jimmy is one of 2,050 political prisoners in Burma today, says Amnesty International. If he were released tomorrow, nobody need ask him what he would do next. We already know. He will take a rest. Then he will continue to do his activity for democracy...
...next morning, I walk into another restaurant. I talk to the waitress in English. "Do you have an English menu?" I ask...
...start to leave the show behind, I spot a large group of teenagers across the barricaded street. Finally! Yet they were all dressed in identical uniforms. Criss-crossing my way among them I stop one to ask who they are. They are some young leaders group, having to do with pre-med high school students. They might stop to get their pictures taken with the signs, taking note of what it is to take a stand, before going on their way to learn about making a different kind of difference...
...third morning, I try breakfast again, ordering in Mandarin. Like the first waitress, this one glares and unhelpfully points to menus I can't read when I ask for help; she rolls her eyes when I ask for water, and she drops down my food with a tension that hangs in the air like the subtropical humidity here. I again give up on figuring out the menu, agree to something I don't understand, and end up with bowl of Ramen and pork chops. I wash it down with a painfully cloying iced tea. When I have a question...