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...professional athletes retiring from competition each year end up jobless or without further schooling plans. Among them, the winner of the 1999 Beijing International Marathon Ai Dongmei, 26, who announced last year that she had no choice but to sell off her medals so that she could feed her family. Former Asian weightlifting champion Cai Li died of pneumonia at age 33 after he couldn't afford to pay his medical bills. Liu Fei, a seven-time national champion and world champion in acrobatic gymnastics, struggles to live on the $20 she earned monthly from tutoring gymnastics...
...falters-they'll be faced with the tougher question of what to do next. The DPJ could block the LDP's bills, but only temporarily-with its overwhelming majority in the Lower House, the ruling coalition can override opposition. If the DPJ is seen as too obstructionist, it could feed perceptions that the party isn't capable of governing. "The DPJ just criticizes," says Shoichi Nakagawa, the LDP's policy chief. "They haven't done anything to solve these problems...
...wife ran some errands downtown on Sunday, I found myself pacing in front of the local Apple store. This is ridiculous. My current "smart" phone is only six months old, capable of sending and receiving email, keeping my calendar, even playing a live television feed through my Slingbox. The last thing I need is a new phone. Yet I found myself drawn to the iPhone. I, like the rest of world, was hopelessly transfixed by the promise of being part of the future of telephony...
...could be - the Tokyo show was to be powered by solar energy and biodiesel made from recycled cooking oil. So I wasn't surprised to see an array of solar panels at the center of the information hall, apparently hooked up to a big-screen TV playing the feed from the concert stage next door. Very green, except for the fact that we were indoors, and there...
...ignore the crushing guilt of being a bad tourist: Why haven’t I taken advantage of my time here? Why am I merely holing up at the house with my 300 book-long summer reading list and enough food to feed a small country? It should be a minor guilt to combat: lazy Saturday mornings in the backyard hammock with a lime popsicle, a tattered Woolf, and a thick Dostoevsky hardly constitute a squandered summer...