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...athletes know that better than Olympic sprinter Michael Johnson, one of the fastest men on earth. Johnson holds two individual world records in track and five Olympic gold medals. He was the first sprinter to win both the 200-m and 400-m events in a single Olympic Games. He has also had his share of disappointments. He contracted food poisoning a month before the 1992 Games and didn't make it past the early heats in the event he was favored to win. And just before the 2000 Olympics, he injured his quadriceps and failed to qualify...
...sisters marry into uppermost Renaissance Italian society. Plain, naive Beatrice gets the ruler of Milan, while precocious (and luscious) Isabella winds up with a lesser man. In this gold brocade world, where every gesture echoes in quadruple?as politics, family, sex and art?only the virtuosos survive, and leading the dance is the greatest virtuoso of them all, Da Vinci...
...sequined Serena Williams ensemble. In 2002, there was not a single Chinese in the top 100 of the WTA tour. Last year, there were three in the top 50. The breakout moment for Chinese women's tennis came in 2004 when a hitherto unknown Chinese duo struck doubles gold at the Athens Olympics. Even the tennis cognoscenti, who easily negotiated the tongue-twister names of the blond, leggy Russians who have come to dominate the tour in recent years, knew little about Sun Tiantian and Li Ting. Today, they have been joined by another pair, Zheng and her fellow Sichuan...
...shop floor of NAC Jewellers, a store in the South Indian city of Madras, is full of exquisitely wrought necklaces in gold and silver, but the prize possession of the owners is a photograph that hangs upstairs in a small office. It shows a tall crown studded with 4,000 diamonds and made from seven kilograms of gold. Four craftsmen from NAC Jewellers spent six months making the crown, at a cost of about $700,000. It now rests on a statue of the goddess Padmavathi Devi at the Tiruchanur Shrine in South India. Anantha Padmanaban, a partner...
...gilding of the nation's temples is an aspect of one of mankind's great investment obsessions: the Indian love of gold. The country buys at least one-fifth of the global gold supply each year, making it the world's largest consumer of the metal. Experts believe that 15,000 to 20,000 tons of bars, ingots and jewelry is locked up in India's bank vaults and household safes. Indians are furiously adding to that horde. The World Gold Council estimates gold buying in India was up nearly 33% to 850 tons in 2005. The increase...