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...Guangdong Sports Technology Institute?one rung higher on the sports hierarchy than Weilun?as a fencer back in 1989. At last year's national games, he was the men's ?p?e champion. But he was left off this year's Olympic roster due to what he says are complex disputes between his home province of Guangdong and Jiangsu, which has the best provincial record in fencing and therefore first pick in forming the roster. So instead of heading to Athens, Xiao is spending this summer futilely training in Guangdong. Having spent more than half his life in the sports system...
...Like many Olympic hopefuls, Blake trains in a modern matrix of tech and technique, mind and body. Olympic coaches and athletes now exploit a wide range of mechanical, video and computer devices designed to coax peak performance out of human bodies. Complex cables propelled by pulleys drag runners faster than they thought they could sprint. A new machine from France lets speedsters run virtual-reality races against the best in the world. Innovative video software allows swimmers and divers to break down their performances frame by precious frame. Like Blake, many athletes have been "sleeping high [in altitude-simulation tents...
...other chunky, powerful institutions--are bound together in a shifting, fluid, borderless global network that no nation controls. Their name for this global system was Empire, and it's a handy model. The U.S. decision to invade Iraq? A classic pre-imperial move, oblivious to the complex global consequences of one nation's actions within the powerful web of Empire. But the authors insist that Empire has an upside, that it creates an opportunity for a different kind of democracy, one that would encompass the world. Their latest tome, Multitude (Penguin Press; 427 pages), tells us how that will happen...
Traditionally, tech IPOs start at low prices, which are then quickly forced up by market demand. But Google is using a complex online Dutch auction system, in which the share price will be determined by the highest bidder. Google's SEC filing warns of a possible "winner's curse," in which the price drops at the start of actual trading. Still, some investors will be winners in any event. Google employees stand to make an average of $2.8 million at the estimated share price. Page and Brin themselves are set to make a one-day profit of $130 million each...
Denune explains that he watched the most complex juggling sequences with a mixture of rapt attention and fear that at any moment, a ball could fall from orbit...