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...course, not just a Chinese phenomenon. Aided by exhausting, full-time training programs, the latest in technology and, on occasion, banned substances, performances in virtually every sport have improved by literal leaps and bounds over the past quarter-century. Hallowed records such as Bob Beamon's long jump have fallen as top-level athletes train so single-mindedly that the idea of Roger Bannister's breaking the four-minute mile in 1954 as a diversion from his medical studies seems almost absurdly quaint...
...SPENDING YOUR TIME THESE DAYS? I'm supporting things like the National Park Foundation and the Fallen Heroes Fund. God has blessed my wife Cathy and me with sufficient material capability. Now it's a matter of figuring out whom we can help, especially as it relates to the troops and their families. It's a cool thing...
...than in many foreign countries. Child labor is forbidden. And inspectors keep closer tabs on whether fields have toilets and hand-washing facilities. Last November three people died and 600 became ill with hepatitis A from unsanitary Mexican scallions at a Pennsylvania restaurant. Likewise, hundreds have fallen ill over the past decade after eating Mexican cantaloupes and strawberries and Guatemalan raspberries. "Americans prefer American produce because they don't want to get sick," says Chuck Obern, a Florida vegetable farmer. COOL, he says, allows him to "promote my wares with information rather than resort to tariffs...
...diversify into agritourism and other businesses. For Europe's farmers, rural chic is more than just a vacation fad; it's a financial necessity. Farmers constitute a small percentage of the population and an even smaller percentage of the economy. The number of farmers in the E.U. has fallen by half over the past 20 years, from 12.7 million to just over 6 million, and agriculture accounts for less than 2% of the E.U.'s GDP. (These numbers don't include the 4 million farmers in the 10 nations that joined the E.U. in May, 2.7 million of them...
...controversial comic strip The Boondocks, and Reginald Hudlin, director of the 1990 movie House Party, began as a movie script that used race as the centerpiece of a political satire. "By the time we realized how difficult that would be to sell in Hollywood, we had already fallen in love with the idea, and we just wanted it to exist," McGruder says. "If you want to tell these stories where somebody's going to see them, you've got to find a different path...