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...deal? You and everyone else. Except, that is, for Phelps himself, who continues to downplay the significance of what he has achieved in Beijing - seven medals, six world records, and one more to go. "It shows that no matter what you set your mind to, anything can happen," Phelps said with his typical lack of emotion when asked about matching Spitz. "I saw so many quotes saying it's impossible to duplicate, that it won't happen. But Bob [Bowman, Phelps' coach] is the one who helped me to really dream about anything. Bob and I have gone through...
...they would snap with a wrong turn around the uneven bars. "Traditionally, the long and lean gymnasts have lost out to the more solid ones," says Bart Conner, 1984 Olympic gold medalist. "Because the leaner gymnasts don't have the stability to stick the landings. But that didn't happen this time...
...sound very confident all this is going to happen. What we're trying to do, in a word, is normalization of our economic relations with the mainland. Mainland China has become our No. 1 trading partner. This relationship already exists, and it has to be given recognition...
...about this: before the qualifying tournaments for the 2012 Olympics, corral a mix of solid ex-college basketball players and recently retired NBAers. Ideally, you'd get current NBA players, but qualifiers would happen during the NBA season, so the players wouldn't be able to break free. Put the college players and pro retirees in a camp for a month. Bang, the U.S. should be in the Olympics. Handball players and the USOC will tell you that the game is way too technical and that it takes years to learn all the tricks. I'm not convinced that...
...Security for young, hardworking Americans. A veteran asked what McCain would do about veterans' benefits. Even the few questions that weren't strictly about the questioners were hardly unrelated - a teacher asked what McCain would do to bring technology into schools, a military recruit asked what McCain expected to happen to the military, and a conservative asked if McCain could reassure conservatives. McCain's slogan is "Country First," but his audience was all about Me First...