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Born in South Africa without major bones in his legs and feet, he had his lower legs amputated before he was a year old. As he grew up, so did the science of prosthetics. Now 21, Pistorius runs on carbon-fiber blades known as Cheetahs. He won gold in the 200 m at the Athens Paralympics in 2004, breaking 22 sec.; but now his eye is on the Olympics in Beijing. It was up to the world body that governs track and field, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), to determine whether using Cheetahs is cheating...
These days, local children play in the forests, unaware of the grim history beneath their feet. As Wislowski spoke to Desbois, two boys squatted on the ground nearby, listening intently, and afterward told TIME that they had known nothing of the killings until then. Although Jews were overwhelmingly the largest group of victims, the Nazis also shot tens of thousands of Gypsies, as well as Polish and Soviet citizens and Italian soldiers. A 26-year-old Ukrainian translator for Desbois said she knew of those deaths, but was astonished to learn about the mass killing of Jews when...
That message - that global warming is urgent, and that action needs to be taken yesterday - hasn't resonated much in Washington yet, where the Bush Administration has dragged its feet on climate change and the Democratic-controlled Congress has often been paralyzed. But state governments are leading the way, especially in the West, where governors on both sides of the political divide - like Schweitzer, a Democrat, and Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger - have taken command on global warming, in the absence of Washington. Both governors are part of a coalition of five Western states aiming to create a regional carbon...
...Make no mistake about it,” he continued, “This hasn’t happened for a thousand years. These people are very, very dedicated. They’re also very smart in their own way, and we need to keep the feet to the fire and keep pressing these people until we defeat them or chase them back to their caves, or, in other words, get rid of them.” Islam is not antithetical to all things American. Yet, rather than try to build bridges and work towards engagement and understanding, since September...
...persuaded John to let Tenzing and me go up and start things moving again, otherwise we simply weren't going to get anywhere and finally he agreed. We did that and we shot up. It was Tenzing, me and Wilf Noyce. We climbed to 24,000 feet, and we sort of got things rolling again. A bit later, when the big lift to the South Col was imminent, the party was making very slow progress, and once again I persuaded John that Tenzing and I should go up quickly and then more or less lead them up to the South...