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Besides, the voting starts soon. From what I can tell by looking at surveys of various state election rules, the first opportunity to cast a ballot between McCain and Obama will come on September 13, a mere nine days after the end of the GOP convention, when traditional absentee voting begins in Pennsylvania. The next day, September 14, Idahoans can walk into county election offices in that state and cast a vote in person. Within a week, voters in Delaware, Illinois, Iowa and Michigan, Virginia and Wyoming can cast their ballots by various means and under varying rules. Early voting...
...covertly intervening in the affairs of its neighbors. The government of Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai has accused the ISI of aiding the Taliban and has blamed it for the recent wave of bloody unrest in the country, including a July 13 attack on a military outpost in which nine U.S. soldiers were killed. In June, Afghan officials had accused the ISI of plotting a failed assassination attempt on Karzai...
...date, Stein has put around 30 of her household staff through the program. They work in her home (and practice on Stein's lucky friends) while being trained for up to nine months. But upon graduation, they find work at resorts on the island, stay on at Jari Menari, or work overseas (some have been hired away to work in destinations as diverse as Bermuda and Italy). A few of the best join Stein's traveling entourage, helping her train staff at five-star resorts around the world...
Bali resident Susan Stein does one of the better things a person can do for their unskilled domestic staff: she teaches them to become something else. It all began casually nine years ago, when the American spa trainer began showing her security guards and gardeners how to give massages to her house guests. She later realized that the skills she was imparting could create better futures for her staff by enabling them to enter the island's important resort industry. From this came Jari Menari (dancing fingers) - part vocational-training enterprise, part massage center and something Stein calls...
...years ago became China's first male ever to win track-and-field gold and now is a vessel of 1.3 billion Chinese people's hopes. The three are joined by 97 other athletes, including some familiar names like Michael Phelps and many others that you'll learn. Twenty-nine TIME reporters from around the world contributed capsule profiles of these athletes. Torres' extraordinary story of midlife in the fast lane is captured by our own Alice Park, who is headed to Beijing for her fifth Olympics. James' intensity and his promise that he will bring back a gold...