Word: lite
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...study looked at the blood of 488 runners in the 2002 Boston Marathon. An astonishing 13% of them showed clear signs of hyponatremia, and three were at the danger level. The condition is most likely to strike novice runners, as élite athletes don't want to lose seconds by slowing down at the water stations that line race routes--and they know from experience that they don't have...
...despite massive reform within our country. I am sure I speak for most white South Africans when I say we are more than pleased to have put apartheid behind us and we would never support racial discrimination of that sort in our lifetime. The suggestion that a white élite school system has kept potential black players off the national team is ludicrous. If you travel to any corner of this magnificent country, you are hard-pressed not to stumble across a bare-bones soccer field with crude poles as goals almost constantly occupied by an exuberant squad of soccer...
...night, the streets of Phnom Penh reveal the country's vast wealth gap. In front of shopping centers selling luxury cosmetics, whole families sleep on patches of sidewalk; beggars missing limbs, a legacy of civil war, crowd outside upscale restaurants where a tiny élite downs French entrées and chic cocktails. But many average Cambodians hope this poverty will vanish, thanks to an apparent miracle: the country has discovered oil. Off Cambodia's southern coast, explorers have found as much as 500 million barrels, potentially providing over $1 billion annually to the country...
...lead to the "resource curse" - a government-connected élite profits, most people still suffer, and the economy winds up dependent on petroleum and facing inflation from rising oil revenues. Nigeria, for example, ranks in the top 10 of world oil exporters, yet 60% of Nigerians live below the poverty line, and the country's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has said that the government has stolen or wasted some $400 billion, a fair share of which presumably came from...
...world's élite voyagers have become accustomed to certain things: spacious rooms, personal chefs, parking for their helicopters. But traveling by boat used to mean sharing space with hundreds if not thousands of fellow passengers. No need for that. Mega-yacht charters now enable you to cruise the club scene in St.-Tropez, explore Alaska's fjords or simply enjoy a massage and a martini from the comfort of your own floating hotel...