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...Nevertheless, for a nation that has been mired for years in economic woes, any sign that it might be regaining its former glory is cause for celebration. The rest of the world, which had not expected a Japanese medal run, appeared to view a host of unpronounceable Japanese names in the pool as pleasant relief from over-hyped contests between the one-syllable American and Australian, Phelps and Thorpe. In the gymnastics arena, even the Americans who came in second in the men's team final could hardly begrudge the tears of joy from Mitsuo Tsukahara, a Japanese gymnast...
...numerous sources say the U.S. and Greece agreed last week that only the Greeks will bear arms. It is a mutually beneficial lie that burnishes Greek pride, but in fact armed U.S. special-forces soldiers and an FBI hostage-rescue team will be riding shotgun on the U.S. squad. Nevertheless, for the first time in Olympic history, the I.O.C. has taken out an insurance policy, valued at $170 million, should the Games at any point be canceled because of terrorism...
Whether he's right is another question. Many of the scientists present in Dublin last week were skeptical of his solution and said they would need to study it much more carefully before passing judgment. Says Preskill: "The mechanism he has in mind may not be so revolutionary." Nevertheless, Hawking acknowledged that Preskill had been right all along and paid off with the agreed-on prize: an encyclopedia. (The joke is that an encyclopedia, unlike a black hole, yields information easily. Hawking offered one on cricket, but Preskill held out for Total Baseball: The Ultimate Baseball Encyclopedia, which...
...tapping the dragon on the tail and getting away with the flames all around you," says Jeff Clark, a longtime big-wave surfer at Maverick's reef, south of San Francisco. But not everyone escapes the dragon: three big-wave surfers have lost their lives in the past decade. Nevertheless, chasing the big wave has been embraced by the $4.5 billion surfing industry, which uses dramatic photographs to promote the extreme image of the sport to younger consumers...
...inquiry, Butler found no good place for the British buck to stop. "No single individual was to blame," he said. "There was no deliberate attempt on the part of the government to mislead ? It was a weakness on the part of all those who were involved." Nevertheless, though he prefers the stiletto to the sledgehammer, Butler did chronicle a damning parade of errors. It turns out that three of five British agents in Iraq whose reports helped convince London that Saddam was amassing a WMD stockpile were frauds, or mistaken. Because Saddam was such a serial liar, analysts repeatedly assumed...