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...Switzerland. The Court of Arbitration for Sport, in a case brought by South Korean gymnast Yang Tae Young, decided that it would set a dangerous precedent to withdraw Hamm's medal, won at the Summer Olympics in Athens, despite a scoring error that cost bronze medalist Yang a crucial one-tenth of a point, which would have been enough to earn him the gold. AWARDED. to ALAN HOLLINGHURST, 50, British author; the Man Booker Prize for The Line of Beauty, the first novel with an overtly gay theme to win the literary award; in London. Of Hollinghurst's evocative tale...
...you’re going to get to the bottom of a character, letting the character get free of financial need is one of the ways of doing it,” he says. “I’m kind of fascinated by that one-tenth of one percent of humanity. I think the inability to use the absorption of time as an excuse for not delving into things emotionally and personally that you would otherwise be delving into often keeps people from levels of self-discovery that they might otherwise achieve...
...DSLAM but made it cheaper by deploying a technology called Ethernet that's been around for nearly 30 years in the short-haul business of local area networking. Ethernet allows telecoms to use Internet equipment like routers to direct traffic around the network, and it can cost one-tenth as much as other networking gear. "We noticed Ethernet kept getting cheaper and cheaper and cheaper, so we said we'd better take advantage of that," says Alcatel chief technology officer Niel Ransom. Indeed, Alcatel's innovation is part of an ever-widening appreciation of what Ethernet technology can accomplish. "Ethernet...
...longtime rival Yahoo, or they're trying to scare away one-day profiteers. "Either way," says Mark Mahaney, analyst for American Technology Research, "this is a real case of buyer beware." Not that there's much up for grabs. Only 9% of Google shares are being made available, and each of those will have one-tenth the voting rights of a share owned by Page or Brin, who are set to earn a one-day profit of up to $130 million each, and become billionaires - at least on paper. Who says the days of dotcom wealth are dead? Much...
...quite over, but the streak soon would be, as Cromwell knew, heading into the NCAA Championships. But that didn’t stop him from going out with a bang. Missing the consolation finals in the 100 meter backstroke by a single position—and one-tenth of a second—Cromwell pulled himself together for one final...