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...taller than many other gold-medal sprinters; compared to his Olympic competition, Bolt's step was 1 ft. longer, allowing him to cover 100m in 41 steps. The other athletes needed, on average, 47. That helps, considering Bolt isn't the best starter - he's relatively slower off the block, but he separates himself at the end of the race, when "he's still able to turn his legs over fast enough with high power," says Ed Coyle at the University of Texas's Human Performance Laboratory. "He overcomes his average start and just doesn't slow down, as others...
...PORTCULLIS HOUSE Built to hold new offices for members of Parliament at a cost of $440 million, Portcullis House was the most expensive office block in Britain when it was finished in 2000. Imposing and elegant, it surrounds an airy courtyard, and seamlessly incorporates the ultramodern Westminster Underground station below...
Booker shares the metabolism of Washington mayor Adrian Fenty, a triathlete who recently waved away an ambulance after he tumbled from his bike near a city freeway. Fenty, 37, has demonstrated a Zelig-like ability to appear wherever cameras are rolling--whether at crime scenes or neighborhood block parties. But his boldest move came when he engineered a city-hall takeover of Washington's struggling public schools. He hired a no-nonsense outsider, Michelle Rhee, to reform the crumbling system; it's a huge gamble politically, but the city's future could depend on its success...
...Booker shares the metabolism of Washington mayor Adrian Fenty, a triathlete who recently waved away an ambulance after he tumbled from his bike near a city freeway. Fenty, 37, has demonstrated a Zelig-like ability to appear wherever cameras are rolling-whether at crime scenes or neighborhood block parties. But his boldest move came when he engineered a city-hall takeover of Washington's struggling public schools. He hired a no-nonsense outsider, Michelle Rhee, to reform the crumbling system; it's a huge gamble politically, but the city's future could depend on its success...
...Residents of a Soviet-era apartment block near the scene of a tank battle had gathered in the courtyard to watch on generator-powered TVs news reports of South Ossetian politicians decrying the genocide they claimed Georgian forces had carried out against their people. The residents sat and wrote out accounts of the attack, which one woman said would be sent to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France...