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...before the Athens games, Tian told TIME: "Things are different than 10 years ago, and we should be allowed to make more money. It's a reflection of the economic reforms China has gone through." Now he has been relegated to the Shaanxi province diving team. Meanwhile, fellow Olympic gold-medalist Guo Jingjing helped safeguard her place on the team by publicly apologizing last month for her own commercial ambitions, saying that her selfishness was unacceptable because "I belong to the nation." That, it appears, is the attitude needed to participate in the most modern Olympics ever...
...decade ago with his extended essay, Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets and Philosophers. But only recently have people begun to apply the term and philosophy to interior decorating. Several new books are leading the charge. Andrew Juniper's Wabi Sabi: The Japanese Art of Impermanence and Taro Gold's Living Wabi Sabi: The True Beauty of Your Life explain how to apply the philosophy to life in general, while The Wabi-Sabi House: The Japanese Art of Imperfect Beauty, by Robyn Griggs Lawrence, helps you apply the principles of wabi-sabi to the place where you live...
DECISION Stallone and co-stars Talia Shire and Burgess Meredith all lost. But Rocky won gold for Best Picture and Best Directing...
...sleek intensity and jaw-swiveling impact unique in movie martial arts. He also knows how to take a fall. In one match, he gets on the wrong end of a killer kick and executes a triple twist before hitting the canvas, as if Greg Louganis were doing a gold-medal dive from a curb into a puddle. And stick around for Jaa's higher, higher, pants-on-fire stunt, in which he twirls and kicks while swathed in flames...
...early stages of a long run of commodity inflation driven by demand for raw materials in China. The Commodities Research Bureau index has jumped 36% since 1999, prompting institutions to triple the money they have tied to commodities. Stocks or funds of raw-materials companies, including energy and gold mining, are one way to go. Or you could buy an Exchange Traded Fund that directly owns gold, such as iShares Comex Gold (launched last week) or StreetTracks Gold. Or you could try a fund that invests in a commodities index, like Pimco Commodity RealReturn. Money is always moving somewhere...