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...have less mass to move around. But once you match for weight, the men run about 10% faster. We've really shown now that at any distance between 100 m up to 1,000 km (620 mi), women are consistently somewhere between 9% and 11% slower than men. We expect that until women can run 100 m as fast as men, women won't beat men even...
...standing practice of wooing small, often poor, international allies with economic aid has occasionally proven embarrassing. In May, a scandal erupted when middlemen commissioned by Taipei to help seduce Papua New Guinea away from Beijing were accused of absconding with $30 million of government funds. Even if, as analysts expect, Taiwan doesn't offer Paraguay the full $71 million, by going, Ma risks being seen as continuing the practice of bribing impoverished nations in Latin America and Africa for their support. "Ma should not expose himself to this kind of open blackmail," says Loh I-Cheng, Taiwan's former ambassador...
When it comes to diving, the Chinese expect nothing less than perfection. On August 11, Chinese pair Lin Yue and Huo Liang triumphed in the men's synchronized 10m platform event, winning by a resounding 17.76 points. Silver went to the German squad, with the Russians - one of whom just recently recovered from a spinal injury - rounding out the medals count...
...point the love affair proceeds predictably - even including their breakup (he has, as you might expect, a commitment issue). She leaves him. He mourns perhaps excessively. She, astonishingly, returns to him some years later. And here both the Roth novel and Isabel Coixet's film (written by Nicholas Meyer) take a truly memorable turn. For she is gravely ill and living alone with the possibility of premature death. She wants Kepesh to take erotic photographs of her before the surgeon's knife destroys her beauty. Does she want more from him? If so, can he respond to her need...
...speech, pre arranged and carefully scripted, was nothing the Chinese didn't expect. A beaming foreign minister, Yang Jieche - Beijing's former Ambassador to Washington - greeted Bush warmly when he arrived in Beijing Thursday night. Publicly, Bush kept to the script as to why he had come to Beijing. "I'm lookin' forward to goin' to the games," he concluded his speech at the embassy Friday morning...