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...entrenched in the country's culture. Strong local clubs, rather than colleges, breed promising youngsters, he says, the best of whom go to sports institutes as teenagers. Government funding also supports home-based athletes (such as Thorpe) and their coaches (such as Doug Frost, Thorpe's mentor). A benign climate, particularly in Sydney and Brisbane, offers hundreds of training venues year-round. Supportive parents who cart seven- or eight-year-olds to early-morning squad sessions help achieve great results at a younger age. "There is no country with this culture," says Touretski...
...Juan Antonio Samaranch - may have found in Australia the perfect country for the Olympic Games. When it comes to sport, Australia seems like a benign, sunnier and drug-free East Germany. Somewhat isolated and with a relatively small population, Australians love their sports like a devoted Commie loved his Marx...
...answer from America is benign but not satisfactory. America's idea of Australia is mostly thin and vague. Americans fantasize in a desultory way about Australia but know much less about us than we do about them. Australia, we hear, is rather like Texas 50 or 100 years ago. The basic American idea of the basic Australian male is - who else? - whatsizname, him with the big knife, star of Crocodile Dundee. Aussies (wrongly pronounced Awzies; the correct pronunciation is Ozzies, though we'd rather you Yanks dropped the dumb pseudo-intimacy altogether and just called us Australians) are all supposed...
...issue that is now on the front burner dates back to 1992, when the FDA decided that biotech ingredients did not materially alter food and therefore did not require labeling. Nor, the agency declared, was premarket safety testing required, because biotech additives were presumed to be benign. Last March the Center for Food Safety and 53 other groups, including the Union of Concerned Scientists, filed a petition to force the FDA to change its policy...
Bruce Willis has been lucky, lately, with mysterious little boys. In The Sixth Sense, he rescued Haley Joel Osment from his uncomfortable relationships with the undead. In the altogether more benign--but still rather charming--The Kid, it is the child (chubby, good-natured Spencer Breslin) who saves Willis...