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...Across the sea, 21-year-old Chinese hurdler Liu Xiang has adopted an equally idiosyncratic approach to preparing for the 110-m hurdles. "Plenty of mushrooms and seafood," the Shanghai native confides. "In traditional Chinese medicine, these foods are famous for giving you extra energy." With the aid of fish and fungi, Liu beat American multiple-world-title holder Allen Johnson with an Asian-record time of 13.06 seconds at a Grand Prix event in Osaka in May, and he continued his mastery with a pair of victories in Europe a month later. Liu's triumphs even persuaded the Chinese...
Genetic tests indicate that 77% of fish sold as red snapper nationwide are other species illegally mislabeled as the popular entree, a new study has found. "It isn't dangerous," says Peter Gladding, a member of a consumer-awareness group, "just unfair." --USA Today...
Mislabeling fish is one thing, but mislabeling land masses is quite another. Tipped off by a strange dearth of tropical vegetation and weather reports that predicted unseasonable cold for more than 300 consecutive days, thousands of tourists and retirees are up in arms after discovering that while they understood themselves to be in Florida, they were actually 3,000 miles north, in Greenland. Governor Jeb Bush's sheepish response--that Florida is just about full up, and that the rerouted human overflow will find the icebound island to be a spectacular vacation and sportsman's paradise if people remember...
...czar, says the terrorists receive a share of profits from heroin sales by supplying gunmen to protect labs and convoys. Recent busts have revealed evidence of al-Qaeda's ties to the trade. On New Year's Eve, a U.S. Navy vessel in the Arabian Sea stopped a small fishing boat that was carrying no fish. After a search, says a Western antinarcotics official, "they found several al-Qaeda guys sitting on a bale of drugs." In January, U.S. and Afghan agents raided a drug runner's house in Kabul and found a dozen or so satellite phones. The phones...
...lightning rod for environmentalists as she slashed the EPA budget and scaled back Superfund payments in the name of states' rights and sensible regulation. After two years, she was forced to resign following her refusal to hand over toxic-waste documents to Congress. "I was a small fish on the way to a big fry," she said later...