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...offer athletes and their coaches free trips to Sydney? You quickly run out of space at the Olympic Village. To compensate for the high cost of getting Down Under, the organizers of the Sydney Games offered to pay air fares for all athletes and officials who planned to attend. A record number accepted. More than 11,100 athletes are participating in the Sydney Games, up from the 10,310 who showed up in Atlanta in 1996. But the Village was designed to house only 10,200 athletes, so officials had to scramble to add beds, doubling and tripling up people...
...accounts have also drawn tens of thousands to Ontario's Algonquin Park (www.algonquinpark.on.ca), 3,000 sq. mi. of wild country--with an unusual attraction: public wolf howls. Provided park naturalists find packs in suitable locations in advance, howls take place on Thursday nights in August. Folks drive hours to attend a howl, which may last less than two minutes. Yet "no one goes away disappointed," says park naturalist Rick Stronks. When this haunting symphony of adult wolves and pups begins, not a peep is heard from human crowds as large...
Anne Jorgensen, 22, a law student at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va., who uses birth-control pills, has a secret she doesn't want her doctor to know. To make it easier to attend her winter formal, a wedding and a few other special events, she tricked her body into skipping its monthly menstrual cycle several times in the past year. How? Instead of taking the last seven pills in her contraceptive case, which contain the placebos, or dummy pills, that allow her uterine lining to slough off each month, she immediately started her next month's batch...
...Texas town of Santa Fe that provoked the Supreme Court ban on student-led prayers last June. Response to the campaign has been mixed: some residents are eager to push the limits of the decision, but others resent agenda-minded outsiders who invite tens of thousands of people to attend home games and recite the Lord's Prayer. In Asheville, N.C., the group We Still Pray, led by pastor Ralph Sexton, filled a football stadium with 12,000 supporters at a rally last month to protest the Supreme Court ruling. The group is also circulating petitions to rewrite...
Just 72 hours before the Millennium Summit, Annan's office contacted Iranian and U.S. officials to see if the two Presidents would be willing to sit through the other's speech at the General Assembly. Another idea was for Albright to attend Khatami's address a day earlier at a UNESCO gathering. Replies were positive, but Annan and his staff worked intensively with the two sides up to the last minute ironing out political sensitivities and logistics. Under fierce pressure back home from religious hard-liners, Khatami took a risk being party to the arrangements. For their part, Clinton...