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Studies of Seventh-Day Adventists in Utah support this finding. Those unusually clean-living Americans are genetically diverse, but they avoid alcohol, caffeine and tobacco--and they tend to live an average of eight years longer than their countrymen. All of this is good news, with a Surgeon General's warning attached: you can't change your genes, but you can change what you eat and how much you exercise. "The lesson is pretty clear from my point of view in terms of what the average person should be doing," says Perls. "I strongly believe that with some changes...
...sport has eight weight classes in the Olympics, each qualifying country is allowed to send only four athletes at most, presumably so Koreans can't monopolize the medal stands. For most South Korean Taekwondo fighters, then, the real challenge isn't just earning the gold: it's defeating fellow countrymen to qualify for the Olympics in the first place. Four years ago, for example, heavyweight Moon Dae Sung missed the Olympics after losing a last-minute rematch during national selections. He made the team this time around, and in Athens he'll be looking to use one of the strongest...
...medal in an international sprint competition. In Athens, the goateed native of Japan's southern Kyushu Island is entered to compete in the 100-m and 200-m dashes and the 4 x 100-m relay. Along the way, he will try to reverse a lingering perception among his countrymen that Asian athletes are somehow physically ill-equipped to be world-beating sprinters...
...Still, Suetsugu is deliberately ignoring whatever hopes have been raised among his 127 million countrymen. Although he has a fair chance in Athens of winning a medal in the 200-m, Suetsugu has announced that he will concentrate on the 100-m, in which just making the final will be a long shot. His goal: to join the tiny ?lite who can run the 100 in less than 10 seconds. "I don't get as excited about the 200," he shrugs. "I'm after something more valuable than a medal." Like Suetsugu, Liu Xiang is chasing a distinctly personal dream...
When I am not dancing or probing the ends of the earth to stake out land for my Irish countrymen, I have sought stability in subtle reminders of normalcy and my routine at home. The people at the local coffee shop already know me, and they are ready to prepare my double-shot cappuccino when I stumble in, grouchy and disappointed by the extent of my addiction, every morning...