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...161/2 ft. long, 4 ft. above the padded flooring. The palms of her hands are coated with gymnasts' chalk that is as white as her uniform, as white as her face. She is an infinitely solemn wisp of a girl, 4 ft. 11 in. tall, a mere 86 lbs.; dark circles above her cheeks; a Kean-eyed elf. Then, with no more strain than it would take to raise a hand to a friend, she is airborne: a backflip, landing on the sliver of a bar with a thunk so solid it reverberates; up, backward again, a second blind flip...
...spent time living in a shantytown on the outskirts of Beijing, conducting first-hand research on its residents, people for whom justice has been so elusive they've come to the capital to plead for help from the senior leadership. Despite having seen so much of his country's dark side, every time I've met Xu he's been remarkably upbeat about China's future. "I'm an optimist," he said earlier this year. "We take on these cases and step by step, maybe we make a little progress...
...July 17]. The pitch is too big, the action is too fast, and the players are too cunning for a single referee to make fair and foolproof judgments. Video refereeing is long overdue. The system transformed rugby into the best sport in the world and left football in the Dark Ages. The referee's decision may seem final, but it is fatally flawed. Football is a great sport, but the professional matches are a disappointment, since the best actors and the luckiest thugs win millions while the likes of Zidane are punished, condemning their teams to unjust defeat. David John...
...since it seems highly uncontroversial - like something Mother might say - that you would want to know where a bit of organic matter came from before you put it into your mouth and swallow. Most of us don?t, of course, which isn?t a new problem: in the Dark Ages, as M.F.K. Fisher wrote, food was ?only a necessity? - ?like sleep and sweating.? So it is for most...
...this isn?t a restaurant model for the faint of heart - Kary is often working his land after dark, by his tractor?s headlights - and I wondered if the farm-to-table concept could work for any but the most elite places...