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American sports fans might be finding their enjoyment of their favorite games slightly tainted by quarterback Michael Vick's return to the NFL after his conviction for financing a dogfighting ring, or the renewed debate about Pete Rose's life-time ban from baseball. But spare a thought for Europe's rugby fans, whose excitement over the start of a new pro season has been replaced by disgust with the "bloodgate" affair - a scandal involving players faking gory injuries, and sometimes even being mutilated to mask the deception. (See TIME's Top 10 Sporting Comebacks...
Some Americans are heeding such warnings and working to transform the way the country eats - ranchers and farmers who are raising sustainable food in ways that don't bankrupt the earth. Documentaries like the scathing Food Inc. and the work of investigative journalists like Eric Schlosser and Michael Pollan are reprising Sinclair's work, awakening a sleeping public to the uncomfortable realities of how we eat. Change is also coming from the very top. First Lady Michelle Obama's White House garden has so far yielded more than 225 lb. of organic produce - and tons of powerful symbolism. But hers...
...Jackson, Michael • scheduled birthday burial of is postponed by horrific father...
Semenya's coach, Michael Seme, also dismissed the claims. "I can give you the telephone numbers of her roommates in Berlin," he told South African news site News24. "They have already seen her naked in the showers and she has nothing to hide...
Hayden and Michael Chertoff, the former Secretary for Homeland Security, argued that unless Congress empowers the intelligence services to hire more fulltime staff, they will continue to depend heavily on contractors. Both said they had reduced the number of contractors employed by their respective agencies, but said that was to streamline operations, not a reflection of any misgivings about the use of outsiders. "It was about government inefficiency, not contractor inefficiency," said Hayden...