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...tested positive for a banned diuretic and last year's winner Gilberto Simoni for cocaine. Francesco Casagrande didn't take any drugs but could have done with a sedative - he was expelled after a sprint tussle left a fellow rider lying in the road with facial injuries. SOCCER A Cagey Game With 2002 viewing figures expected to beat 1998's 33.4 billion, the World Cup is a tide that floats the boat of many advertisers who, like Nike, do not even sponsor the competition. Adidas, an official sponsor, is the leader in the soccer goods market and happily promotes...
...Taliban fighters survived the battle of Shah-i-Kot to fight another day? The Pentagon has boasted of hundreds dead, but they aren't evident in the valley. In Sarkhankhel, only three bodies are visible. Farther upstream, another lies in pieces in a garden. The special forces are cagey about numbers. "Even if we did have them," says a soldier, "we wouldn't be authorized to disclose them." But the Americans insist that the death toll is high. "I've seen them," says Alabama Chris, of al-Qaeda corpses. "I can definitely corroborate that what we've done...
...appeal among Muslims around the world and condemned the Sept. 11 attacks. And even as al-Qaeda tries to link its struggle to that of Palestinians against Israel, Khatami said Tehran would recognize Israel's right to exist if the Palestinian people chose to do so. A politically cagey if, but still a big step for Iran...
...less-interesting missing-persons adventure. But while dature may abhor a vacuum, dark media suspicions flower in one. Condit's public pose - the politician's equivalent of pulling your coat over your head - has left the hordes one of two impressions: of a cowardly (and foolish) innocent or a cagey monster...
...rival team, Riess knew of the discovery, but he learned soon afterward that other Hubble photos had also caught the supernova, completely by chance. So one day last summer, he recalls, "I called Peter and began fishing around for information. I guess I wasn't especially cagey. He said almost right away, 'Are you asking about 1997ff...