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...early days, his methods alienated Geschwindner from the basketball community, but then his first crop of players came of age. Four other former Geschwindner pupils from Würzburg, a city of 300,000, play with Nowitzki on the German national team, which is sharpshooting its way through the qualification rounds for the Beijing Olympics. "If you see what he does, you can't believe it works," says Christoph Bueker of the German Basketball Federation. "But he's been so successful, you can no longer say it's lunacy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Holger Geschwindner | 3/20/2008 | See Source »

...feel much better,” he says. “You don’t realize till you lose it, but so much of this game is confidence.”As it looks beyond Stack-Babich and Vance in its search for a new crop of run producers, Harvard may want to set its sights on the collection of talent amassing around first base, where sophomores Andrew Prince and Chris Rouches and junior Harry Douglas are all vying for playing time.Prince, at an imposing 6’1 and 230 lbs. and with a serious demeanor, simply...

Author: By Loren Amor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Finding The Power Within | 3/20/2008 | See Source »

...Enter retail. It's certainly not rosy in retail-land: The Sharper Image, Lillian Vernon Crop and Bombay Company have all declared bankruptcy. Ann Taylor announced the phaseout of 117 of its 921 stores over the next three years and Liz Claiborne is shutting down 54 Sigrid Olson shops this year. Talbots streamlined 22 more stores in addition to the 78 it already had announced while also ending Talbots Mens and Talbots Kids. The International Council of Shopping Centers forecasts that store closings could reach 5,770 this year - the highest since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Retail Stars of the Recession | 3/18/2008 | See Source »

...exporting, that is turning coca into everything from flour to toothpaste, shampoo and curative lotions. (Morales sent Fidel Castro a coca cake for his 80th birthday last year.) Even as the INCB was issuing its report, the Bolivian government was reaffirming its desire to increase Bolivia's legal coca crop limit from 12,000 hectares (30,000 acres) to 20,000 hectares (49,000 acres). The Bush Administration has warned that the latter move would put Bolivia in violation of its international agreements - it is "not consistent with Bolivia's obligations," said the State Department - and risk tens of millions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fighting for the Right to Chew Coca | 3/17/2008 | See Source »

Past research has come to the same conclusion. Countries with lots of sunshine, which triggers vitamin D production in the body, for example, have a lower incidence of type 1 diabetes than relatively sunless places. Studies have also shown that new cases of type 1 diabetes crop up more often in winter, when there is less sunshine all around, than in summer. In addition, says Zipitis, when doctors check vitamin D blood levels of newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes patients, they are generally lower than average. "In the U.K. and other European countries, we haven't got the right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vitamin D Lowers Diabetes Risk | 3/13/2008 | See Source »

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