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...OLYMPIA, WASH...
...Olympic mascots and emblems are kitsch, climaxing last month in the Great Medal Screwup. It turned out that all the Olympic medals, the bronze and the silver as well as the gold, had been designed to feature not the Parthenon in Athens, not even the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, but the Colosseum in Rome, less noted for Olympic-style friendship than for gladiatorial butchery. What the hell, the officials of the Sydney Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games apparently reasoned; it's still the ancient world, right? Then it befell some luckless S.O.C.O.G. flack to claim it wasn...
...home to hold down the fort or moving the entire family from town to town. But with today's preponderance of dual-career couples--80% of the labor force--it is just as often the woman's job that separates the partners. Stephanie Coontz of Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash., a historian of marriage, argues that this represents a newly egalitarian attitude toward marital roles. "There's no longer the assumption that the woman immediately puts her career on hold once she gets married," says Coontz. "It's part of an avalanche of evidence that marriage is being reconstructed...
Fierce wildfires have blazed across Greece for the past week, torching villages and killing 63 people amid the country's worst such disaster in decades. Hot winds have spread infernos from the southern Peloponnese to the isle of Evia north of Athens. Even at ancient Olympia, birthplace of the Olympic Games, flames scorched the earth around the sacred site's museum...
...OLYMPIA, GREECE Deadly wildfires burn nearly 500,000 acres...