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TIME: What will you do after you retire? STREET: Being a ski racer has defined me for the last 15, 20 years of my life, and I?d like to find myself away from that. I want to go out and slide around like normal people who go skiing instead of having to make perfect carving turns the entire way down the mountain. But to be really honest, what I want to do when I get done skiing is just sit on my couch, watch some TV and catch up with what?s going on in America right...
...risk of dying may not seem like bad odds, but there's more to this ethical dilemma than a simple ratio. The first and most sacred rule of medicine is to do no harm. "For a normal healthy person, a mortality rate of 1% is hard to justify," says Dr. John Fung, chief of transplantation at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. "If the rate stays at 1%, it's just not going to be accepted...
...risk--on its face, a stat worth worrying over. Hetherington acknowledges the gap between kids in nuclear and postnuclear families: "You can say, 'Wow, that's twice as big,' as some clinicians like Wallerstein do. But what it also means is that 75% of kids are functioning within the normal range. People don't focus on the resiliency of children...
TIME: Can you realistically imagine Afghanistan becoming a normal country that doesn't need constant attention from the international community? BLAIR: Looking at the Balkans 10 or 15 years ago, people would have said that was impossible [too]. What all of the countries of the region want is a stable partner. I think it's possible to get a broad-based regime, provided there is reconstruction work going on and some stability. In the end I believe that the vast majority of people the world over don't want to fight all the time, they want to get on with...
...program was launched under the direction of Gérard Houllier - a former French national coach who currently manages a resuscitated and rejuvenated Liverpool club. The program is built on seven regional training centers, where young players scouted and recruited from small youth clubs and FFF-organized tournaments follow normal educational programs supplemented with daily training in football technique. The best players from regional centers are periodically called to the INF camp near Paris for higher-level instruction with national team coaches. On the weekends, the players return to their local clubs for their league games. "This system doesn...