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...weather was right - no snow and not much wind - and so freestyle aerial skier Ales Valenta of the Czech Republic decided to try a quintuple twist with a triple back-flip. No one had ever attempted?much less landed?a five twist jump in the Olympics. For Valenta it was a maneuver he had completed perfectly only twice in practice. But he was trailing defending Olympic champion Eric Bergoust of the U.S. and three others after the first round of jumps. Valenta needed something spectacular to win. Indeed, the five-twist jump he executed was spectacular. Also decisive. He took...
...WHAT JUDGES LOOK FOR Flowing from one jump into the next is critical. Landing at a dead stop not only loses points, but also makes it harder to launch into the next jump. Edge jumps, such as the flip, Salchow and loop, which take off from the blade edge rather than the toe pick, require more technical skill, and earn higher marks for the increased difficulty...
...Let’s flip the script and turn the binoculars to a few women’s magazines. What kind of schizo put this crap together? Right in the middle of a sea of dieting tips will be a page on a triple suicide. I feel like the writers and editors of these journals are paranoid nymphos with rock-bottom self-esteem who are missing the piece of their brain that discriminates between “interesting” and “totally not important.” I mean, the top features are either...
...guys’ mag is a pretty well-organized booklet of articles and health tips. Sure, preference is given to college basketball coaches and obscenely hot models, but flip through the pages and you’ll also find genuinely newsworthy exposés on everything from the Taliban to declining civic community. Throw in some specs on the latest cars and gadgets, maybe a recipe and a wine of the month or a piece of short fiction and—ba-da-bing—you’ve got a men’s magazine...
...role, if any, in the kidnapping remains unclear. Indeed, a lack of clarity seems the only salient theme of the investigation so far. Many security experts in Pakistan doubt that the kidnappers are professionals. If the first e-mails really came from Pearl's captors, the imprecision (unclear deadlines, flip-flopping accusations) and absurdity of their demands (it's fairly well known that the U.S. does not negotiate with kidnappers) would suggest they are new to the kidnapping and terrorism business. Terry Anderson, an American reporter who was held hostage by Islamic radicals for seven years in Lebanon, said last...