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...surplus with the U.S. will swell to $40 billion this year, the Chinese have little incentive to change their stance. American policymakers face strong pressure from U.S. firms who fear that, unless the U.S. tolerates China's cheating on trade, they will be locked out of the world's fastest-growing market. Boeing will still benefit as long as it has orders for planes--even if they are built by Chinese workers. Whether Clinton and the Congress intend it or not, the practical effect of their trade policy toward China, at least for now, is to defend the interests...
Take Nancy Reno, for example. She is not only an Olympic hopeful in beach volleyball but a marine biologist as well. Or rower Ruth Davidon, who became the fastest single-sculler in the U.S. while pursuing a medical degree at Johns Hopkins and a doctorate at Harvard simultaneously. Or triple jumper Mike Conley, who happens to be a deputy sheriff in Washington County, Arkansas. And Americans aren't the only Olympic athletes with uncommon pursuits. Conley's rival in the triple jump, Britain's world-record holder Jonathan Edwards, worked in a genetics lab in Newcastle until recently...
...attributes much of his athletic longevity to a nutritional diet that includes lots of fruits, fresh vegetables and nutritional supplements. But the real reason Bostick defeated favored competitors 15 years his junior to make the Olympic team had nothing to do with sustenance. "Kent might not have been the fastest rider, but he was the one who wanted it the most," says Frank Scioscia, director of Bostick's riding team, Shaklee--named for its health-food-company sponsor. "In athletics, desire is often the deciding factor...
Sprinter Frankie Fredericks of Namibia will be making a strong run for the title of "World's Fastest Human" at the Olympics. Last week in Helsinki he ran the third-fastest 100 m ever, in 9.87 sec., finishing ahead of world champion Donovan Bailey of Canada. Fredericks is also a contender in the 200, an event dominated by Michael Johnson. A few days earlier, Johnson won the 200 at the U.S. Olympic trials in 19.66 sec., breaking the 17-year-old world record...
...reason was to make Johnson train even harder, extend himself even further, then that bad clam or whatever it was in Salamanca succeeded. Ever since Barcelona, Johnson has been on a mission to prove himself the fastest in the world in both the 200 and the 400. To the uninitiated, the 200/400 double sounds no more difficult than the more common 100/200 or 400/800 combinations. "The 200 and 400 are totally different animals," says Hart. If the 200 is a race that goes to the swiftest, the 400 goes to the smartest and strongest. Johnson, in fact, embodies those superlatives...