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...much higher level," Alassane says. The OS program is designed to help him, and 584 other Athens Olympians, reach that level. During the past two years, the International Olympic Committee (I.O.C.) has plowed $13.7 million into athlete scholarships, and another $100 million into training centers, regional competitions and sports development. Without the money that OS invested in him, Alassane would never have left Niger to train, got a world-class coach or won a bronze medal at the African championships in May, the feat that qualified him for Athens. OS "is indispensable," says Hassene Ikhlef, who coaches Alassane...
Hurt by a failure to develop new stars, American women's gymnastics floundered in the years after the team's historic victory in Atlanta. Says USA Gymnastics president Bob Colarossi: "We had to do something." He pleaded for help from Bela, who was retired. Colarossi, Bela and Martha came up with a program that would not only improve the U.S.'s Olympic chances, but also keep the talent pipeline full. In 1999 Bela became the first national team coordinator (his wife succeeded him two years later), the gym czar with veto power over the Olympic team...
...feel good about sending their children to preschool this fall. According to a study in this month's Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention journal, children who attend day care or nursery school for at least one year before kindergarten are about 36% less likely than those not in preschool to develop Hodgkin's lymphoma as young adults. The study's scientists, from the Harvard School of Public Health, Yale University and Johns Hopkins Medical Institute, suggest that early contact with other kids' germs and exposure to common childhood infections help the immune system mature, making kids less susceptible to this form...
Doctors still don't know what exactly causes schizophrenia, a devastating mental illness characterized by extremely disordered thinking. They're pretty sure that some kind of genetic predisposition is at work. But they also suspect that environmental triggers--particularly at critical moments during the brain's development before birth--play a role. That's why the results of a study published last week in the Archives of General Psychiatry are so intriguing. For the first time, researchers have direct evidence that exposure to influenza in utero is tied to a greater likelihood that an individual will someday develop schizophrenia...
...billion. A New Frontier BRITAIN The government's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority granted experts at Newcastle's Centre for Life a license - the first of its kind - to carry out therapeutic cloning using human embryos. The scientists hope to use stem cells from the embryos to develop treatments for diseases, including diabetes and Alzheimer's. Papal Sanction AUSTRIA A court in St. Poelten, near Vienna, gave a former student at a Catholic seminary in the city a six-month suspended jail sentence for possessing child pornography. A day earlier, a papal envoy investigating wider allegations of sexual impropriety shut...