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Perhaps the biggest change is that the new rules don't reward those circus-leap triple Axels to the exclusion of other skills. That benefits skaters like Meissner who have the big tricks but are more analytical and calculating enough to maximize their point totals with the minimum amount of exhausting big tricks. Under the new code of points (COP), as it's called, there is no hiding a weak spin, sloppy footwork or poor basics. It's a far more demanding and exacting measure of an athlete...
...TIME: You've been here before to Sundance with The Good Girl. Were you expecting the circus...
...racers - young, fit and famous - are not exactly strangers in the nightclubs at resorts across Europe and the Rockies. There's a reason the ski circuit is called the "white circus." Italian ski legend Alberto Tomba (La Bomba) kept the tabloids busy with his evening exploits. "If any of the sponsors didn't know what they were in for, that this is a part of the package, shame on them," says a Nike rep. According to Miller's agent, Miller just inked the biggest deal ever for a skier, with equipment maker Atomic. He also endorses Barilla pasta, among other...
...those baby boomers stay aboard the drug carousel when so many millions more climbed off? And what exactly have 40 years of experimental pharmacology done to them? It would not have been possible--much less ethical--to recruit subjects when the 1960s drug circus got started, send them off for four decades of substance abuse and bring them back for study. But now that the ad hoc longitudinal experiment those aging boomers have been conducting on themselves is reaching its endgame, addiction experts are pouncing on what the doctors and psychiatrists treating the abusers are learning. What they uncover...
...COMPLETE MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS 16-TON MEGASET...