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...probably going to eat them. If the filmmakers are kind enough to cut the transfat in half, I'll get to feel a little less guilty about enjoying my emotional pornography. In other words, if I can be made to laugh a few times and give a fig about anyone in the movie, I'll embrace it, at least in the heat of the Vera Wang-fueled moment...
Under pressure to address "age-doping," the IOC asked the International Federation of Gymnastics (FIG) on Friday to re-open the Federation's previous investigation into the matter of the girls' ages. Prior to the competition, when rumors of the under-aged gymnasts first surfaced, the FIG had looked at the passports of the gymnasts and declared itself satisfied that the girls were at the lower-age limit of 16, not 14, as some earlier news reports on the girls had noted. Now, the FIG is asking the Chinese Gymnastics Association for further proof of the athletes' ages. The United...
...will it? At the moment, the only proof that IOC and FIG officials can rely on will be registration documents from previous competitions, or birth records of the girls' that would show different birth dates. Biologically, says Dr. David Sinclair, a pathologist at Harvard Medical School who studies the aging process in animal models and people, "There are many possible methods to determine age, but they are not very accurate. The error is about two years." Most of these are also based on forensic approaches and have not used to screen for age in living people. In some cases, current...
...along with some vertebral bones, both sets of which start out rough in youngsters but smooth out over time; images of the femur, or thigh bone, which becomes thinner and loses bone mineral over time; dental wear; and closure of the cranium. However, it's unlikely that IOC or FIG officials will go so far as to impose these types of biological tests on the Chinese gymnasts - especially since none of these methods can definitively pinpoint any of their ages as either...
...Rosa Mexicano. But the most uniquely New York dining feature in the terminal has got to be food delivery: at 10 "bars" scattered by the gates throughout the terminal, you can order from a food and beverage menu displayed on a touch screen, and have your prosciutto-and-fig panini or Tanqueray and tonic delivered directly to you. (You'll get an ETA on your delivery, so you can decide whether you have enough time before take...