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Forget that hockey match the U.S. won 22 years ago in Lake Placid. The real miracle on ice happened last week, when Australian Steven Bradbury, 28, won his country's first-ever Winter Olympic gold medal. With only one lap to go in the men's short track speed skating 1,000-m final, Bradbury, who'd never had a world-class solo victory, was trailing far behind the other four skaters. Then the pack crashed and Bradbury cruised past the carnage from worst to first. "I was like, 'Hang on a minute, I think I just won,'" Bradbury told...
...bare the emotional subtext that has so far been missing in the great cloning debate. It's one thing to argue the merits of cloning when you're talking about uncuddly sheep, mice, cattle, goats and pigs. It's quite another when the clone is practically sitting in your lap, mewing and purring and begging for love...
...waffling of two years ago. The promo announcing the show's return aired only hours after the new contracts had been signed, an indication of how much the network relies on the show to carry its prime time. But it is really the FRIENDS who should take a victory lap. Each cast member will earn $1 million an episode, an increase from their current amateur level of $750,000 a show...
Smith’s fall knocked the U.S. from second to third place behind the Italians. Shortly thereafter the Chinese, who had fallen earlier in the race, moved up into third. The U.S. finished more than a lap behind first-place Canada and almost a half a lap back of third-place China...
...final, Smith led up until the final lap, but he was passed by Gagnon and fellow Canadian Jonathan Guilmette down the stretch...