Word: cheating
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...take advantage of the system undermines the accomplishments of clean athletes—whose hard work and steadfast discipline yield substantial performance improvements. Although the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency has subjected athletes the most rigorous testing in history, making it more difficult for athletes in Olympic sports to cheat, newspapers filled headlines with the idea that this has not changed the problem...
After twenty years, one day a young man approaches him and asks why he bothers to keep shouting: “Can’t you see that nothing has changed. The people still lie and cheat and steal and hate, and for all your shouting and all your tears, you have accomplished nothing...
...Paltrow, Angelina Jolie and Giovanni Ribisi to sign up for a vintage-looking film about a pilot and a tagalong reporter saving the world from an evil genius. "It's a rare chance we get to do something completely original artistically," says Jolie. "People use blue screen to cheat or enhance a little, but he had a film in his head that could only be done with all the newest technology. We made a whole new type of film, mixing old and new styles. It's a piece of art with its own unique texture...
PAGING DR. RUNGOOD How medical advances can help athletes cheat...
...athletes tempted to cheat, a word of caution: advances in technology cut both ways. Ashenden's group is researching a powerful new tool able to precisely measure a person's metabolic profile. "Athletes who are doping are altering their metabolism, whether it's by taking a drug or inserting a gene," Ashenden says. "So if we can look at their metabolic profile and see it isn't normal, then that's evidence they have doped--even if we might not know what exactly they've done...