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...women half-pipe snowboarders almost missed their final runs--the most important moment of their athletic lives--because they had crept away to an off-limits slope to sneak in some extra rides. Hannah Teter, 19, and Gretchen Bleiler, 24, returned in time to take home gold and silver, respectively. In the finals of the snowboard cross, a new, Roller-Derby-on-snow Olympic event in which four boarders twist and fly down a mountain to the finish, favorite Seth Wescott, 29, should have panicked, trailing Slovakia's Radoslav Zidek late in the race. (It's the Olympics...
...sounds like a recipe for economic disaster: Oil rpices soared while central banks around the world hiked interest rates. But last year the global economy carried that extra weight and continued to move ahead robustly. The combination of big-spending U.S. consumers and booming Chinese production that feeds the Western appetite for low-priced products resulted in a second consecutive year of worldwide growth of more than 4%. That's the strongest in three decades, and there's more good news to come: the world economy is on track to enjoy another bumper year in 2006 as the twin Chinese...
...West Point released a report last week analyzing 29 al-Qaeda documents. Among them is an employment contract that outlines for potential recruits the need for loyalty concerning "legitimate duties like jihad" and also details such matters as vacation time (five days a month for bachelors), salary (700 rupees extra for every wife)--even sick days. Is the document authentic? The Department of Defense and West Point have studied it carefully and believe it is. "It has the same characteristics that you'd expect to see on Jobs.com, says the center's director, Lieut. Colonel Joe Felter. "But their product...
With all those caveats in mind, however, it seems clear that the benefits of calcium and vitamin D supplements are small for most women and probably fairly modest even for those at greatest risk of cancer or bone loss. In addition, the studies found that women who take extra calcium have a 17% greater risk of developing kidney stones...
Sometimes the books were not ready, and other times, the mimeograph would not work. I myself had a very hard time keeping up with the pace of reading and lecture, and you can only imagine the extra effort she needed. But Sally kept on struggling. She discussed the issue with a myriad of representatives from the AEO office, each time describing the equipment she had been promised during pre-frosh weekend...