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...These age-defying athletes are all impressive. But they've got nothing on Randy Couture, the mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter who will take on heavyweight Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira Saturday night in the 102nd Ultimate Fighting Championship event. A five-time champion in the UFC, the premier promoter in the fast-growing sport of mixed martial arts, Couture, 46, is an aging man in a sport that can obliterate even young, healthy bones. As such, he amounts to a litmus test for the next wave of young MMA athletes, who have to wonder, how long can we hang around this...
...This is why Taiwan's manufacturers, at the risk of alienating their heavyweight customers, are breaking out of the box by slapping their logos on innovative new products. Asustek was mainly a little-known maker of computer circuit boards and graphics cards until 2007, when it unveiled the Eee PC, a lightweight miniature laptop costing less than $300. These wi-fi-equipped netbooks were enthusiastically accepted by an increasingly bargain-conscious public. Sales are soaring this year even as overall PC sales decline during the recession; research firm DisplaySearch predicts 1 in 4 laptops sold this year will...
...that it helped the U.S. government gather intelligence from inside Iran. Washington hawks such as House Veterans Affairs Committee chairman Representative Bob Filner (D.-Calif.) continue to call for the U.S. to support the MEK and other "resistance" groups fighting the Tehran regime. And former House Speaker and GOP heavyweight Newt Gingrich on July 12 called for the U.S. to "sabotage" Iran's oil and gas industry "to create a gasoline-led crisis to try and replace the regime...
...when he announced it last year, would shed light on an "emerging superpower." They may not have known it at the time, but the Jodhpuri painters who depicted the worldly and otherworldly powers in both classical and radically innovative ways, foreshadowed India's role as a burgeoning global cultural heavyweight. Like modern Bollywood filmmakers and Indian writers and musicians, they recognized tradition, but took risks to grow beyond...
...Vicki Gass, senior associate for rights and development at the independent Washington Office on Latin America. "There will have to be a negotiated settlement to this crisis, and while Latin America appreciates the U.S.'s new style of engagement, it's also still wary of Uncle Sam playing the heavyweight in these situations." That's especially true in Honduras, where the Reagan Administration backed a brutal right-wing campaign against leftists during the 1980s. Read "Honduras Braces for a Protracted Fight...