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...remaining 10 at least 85% complete. "We had doubts," the I.O.C.'s Denis Oswald told reporters. But "all these doubts have disappeared." There is an element of suspense to every Olympic Games. Getting everything ready on time for the biggest show on earth proves a challenge for most hosts. Atlanta had its share of delays and construction snafus before a last-minute frenzy snapped its facilities into place in time for the 1996 Games. But the Greeks have brought their own special brand of drama. Work stoppages, the sacking of organizers, procrastination, glacier-speed planning and now a breathless dash...
...went to an Olympic basketball game in Atlanta eight years ago. It was Argentina against South Korea. Argentina won the game something like 80-20. Neither team had an NBA player on its roster...
...things to come than a political provocation aimed at embarrassing the government. They succeeded. There were plenty of red faces among the Greek delegation that arrived in Washington later that day to brief FBI and CIA officials on security arrangements for the Olympics. The modest bomb that hit the Atlanta Games in 1996 proves that no nation is impervious to such attacks. But the ease with which so many small-time Greek bombers are able to set off their blasts in Athens makes security experts worry that big-time bombers like al-Qaeda might be able to do the same...
...against Yale in 1968—was an All-American baseball player with the Crimson. “A big guy at 6’3, 235 lb, he was drafted seven times and spent seven years in the Bigs as a catcher with the Chicago White Sox and Atlanta Braves...
...space junk is the human debris that litters the universe, junk space is the residue mankind leaves on the planet"). His highest goal is to restore possibilities for human interaction of whatever kind. Congestion and sprawl he sees as advantages. The posthuman megalopolises of the 21st century--Tokyo, Atlanta, Shanghai--are just so many jumbo opportunities. On the other hand, he is sick to death of skyscrapers, which he considers vertical cylinders that isolate people instead of putting them into circulation with one another. "It's hypocritical for anyone to argue that skyscrapers are part of civil society and public...