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...Change is also coming from the very top. First Lady Michelle Obama's White House garden has so far yielded more than 225 lb. of organic produce - and tons of powerful symbolism. But hers is still a losing battle. Despite increasing public awareness, sustainable agriculture, while the fastest-growing sector of the food industry, remains a tiny enterprise: according to the most recent data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), less than 1% of American cropland is farmed organically. Sustainable food is also pricier than conventional food and harder to find. And while large companies like General Mills have...
...will stop at 9.4, but you never know," he said. At this point, nothing seems impossible for the lanky, 22-year-old Jamaican, whose win cemented his place in track-and-field lore, and left no doubt that he owns the sport's most fabled title: World's Fastest Human...
...parlayed his speed into a career as a wide receiver for the Dallas Cowboys; his passing in 2002 prompted one columnist to remark that Death must have tied his shoelaces together to catch him. In the 1980s and '90s, Leroy Burrell and Carl Lewis both held the World's Fastest Human title twice, and Lewis, in particular, converted the title into endorsement riches. At the Atlanta Olympics in 1996, Canadian Donovan Bailey snatched the mantle by speeding to gold in 9.84 seconds, earning himself a spot in a 150-m duel with Michael Johnson, the gold-shoed sensation...
...easy, and several title holders have crumbled under the pressure. In 1988, Jamaican-born Canadian Ben Johnson clocked a scorching 9.79 at the Seoul Olympics, but quickly had his record expunged after testing positive for the anabolic steroid stanozolol. Johnson wasn't the last World's Fastest Human to succumb to the lure of steroids. American sprinter Justin Gatlin, who ran a 9.77 at a meet in Qatar, is serving a four-year suspension for doping, and Tim Montgomery - who called the title the "top of the food chain" in sports - was ensnared in the BALCO steroid scandal and stripped...
...Still, for the country it was a tumultuous time. The Asian financial crisis had devastated what had once been one of East Asia's fastest-growing economies. Kim privatized state-owned companies and jump-started South Korea's IT sector. After getting $60 billion in loans from the IMF in 1997, South Korea became the first East Asian country to, in effect, graduate from its oversight, paying its IMF loans back faster than any other East Asian country, in 2001. (See lessons from Asia's financial crisis...