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...these troubled times, security for the President's Middle East road show requires the logistics and hardware fit for a small invasion. When Bush touched down in Israel on Wednesday, he was preceded by three C-5 Galaxy aircraft - the U.S. Air Force's heavy lifter - crammed with dozens of armored cars, computers, jamming devices, weapons, packs of bomb-sniffing dogs, Secret Service agents, and a contingent of snipers, some of whom who were later spotted on a rooftop in Bethlehem hiding behind a fake Santa...
...evil twin). It consists of dozens of manic five-second mini games in a row. They're geared to the Japanese gaming sensibility, which has a zany, cartoonish, game-show bent. In one hot minute, I use the controller to swat a fly, do squat-thrusts as a weight lifter, turn a key in a lock, catch a fish, drive a car, sauté some vegetables, balance a broom on my outstretched hand, color in a circle and fence with a foil. And yes, dance the hula. Since very few people outside Nintendo have seen the new hardware, the room...
...Olympics celebrate the triumph of motion, the powerful upward thrust of a weight lifter, the gravity-defying spring of a pole vaulter, even the twirling toes of a flock of synchronized swimmers. So when Mongolia's sole female marathoner, Luvsanlkhundeg Otgonbayar, appeared at the entrance of a massive marble stadium unveiled in 1896 for Athens' first modern Olympics, it was impossible not to be taken aback by her almost imperceptible pace. More than an hour had passed since Japan's Mizuki Noguchi, a 40-kg wisp, had fluttered into the stadium, vomited and smoothed back her hair to accept...
...urine and blood samples during the Games: each positive "means we're successful." In the end, the host nation could say the same. Greece ended with a sparkling medal haul that included a dominant 400-m women's hurdles win by Fani Halkia and a fourth medal for weight lifter Pyrros Dimas. Though just a bronze, it prompted an ovation so loud and raucous that the other medalists had to wait an extra 15 minutes to join Dimas on the podium. That exuberance filled Athens during the Games, drowning out the doubters who said the Greeks couldn't - wouldn...
...Athens are sniping about how little Greece has to show off for its Olympics. "Athens is in Europe, but it is quite undeveloped," sniffed Zhao Xiyan, a textile exporter who spent last week waving the Chinese flag at the gymnastics venue. "Beijing will be much better than this." Weight lifter Shi, who hopes to be back for more Olympic glory in four years' time, dutifully listed an expanded highway system and improved English from the city's taxi drivers as his greatest desires for Beijing 2008. But, he added: "If the city looks beautiful and I win gold again, that...