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...Turin, Italy, early next year. The Maryland teen, who started ballet at age 4 and danced in The Nutcracker before following her hockey-loving brothers onto the ice, leaped to a third-place finish at the U.S. national championships last year by landing a spectacular--and clean--triple Axel, the most difficult jump for women to execute. That made her only the third woman in the world (after Japan's Midori Ito and the U.S.'s infamous Tonya Harding) to land the jump. With new rules in place for the Winter Games designed to make judges more accountable for their...
...partner in its Galileo project, a new satellite navigation system that will compete with America's GPS network. "For a relatively small amount of money, so say the U.S. and Japan, the E.U. has given China possible access to European high technology in space with potential military applications," says Axel Berkofsky, senior policy analyst at the European Policy Center in Brussels. And although manned space flight is reputed to be an inefficient way to develop military prowess, a recent study by the East Asian nonproliferation project at the Monterey Institute of International Studies concluded that the Shenzhou program has improved...
...suicide bombers when disabling them would be enough? Why pump eight bullets into a suspect when one or two would have been enough? What went on inside the minds of the police who killed Menezes? The public is entitled to be informed of all the details of this event. Axel Beselin Malveira da Serra, Portugal Beyond Symbols of Support In his column "the danger of yellow Ribbon Patriotism" [Aug. 29], Joe Klein stated that there needs to be a public acknowledgment of the agony the war in Iraq has caused. He noted that our troops just want our support...
...think that voters in France and the Netherlands had rejected the six-year-old European currency rather than the planned new European Union constitution. Propelling the decline was a report--quickly denied--in the German newsmagazine Stern that at a meeting in late May, Finance Minister Hans Eichel and Axel Weber, head of the German central bank, had discussed the prospect of dissolving Europe's monetary union. Weber dismissed the report as "absurd," and most market watchers and economists agreed. "The talk will continue for a week or two, then go away--the euro's here to stay," says William...
...released the first track off their new CD last week, you could almost sense the relief at record label EMI. Chairman Eric Nicoli partly blamed a 13% dip in annual profits on the delay of the group's latest album. All the more irritating, then, that Crazy Frog's Axel F, mixing the theme tune from the Beverly Hills Cop movie with an infuriating mobile-phone ring tone - think two-stroke scooters voiced by an animated frog - outsold Coldplay's single fourfold last week, according to music retailer HMV. Exploiting the Crazy Frog's appeal (the ring tone is sold...