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...What's more, while star Jamaican runners used to go abroad to train and study, most now opt to stay home, further endearing them to their countrymen. Bolt and Fraser, for example, eschewed lucrative U.S. college scholarship opportunities to attend the University of Technology in Kingston. Jamaican sports officials insist having the athletes on native soil has also led to a far lower incidence of the kind of doping scandals that have bedeviled Jamaican-born sprinters in the past. Bolt even made a point earlier this summer of letting it be known he'd sworn off partying to better prepare...
...could also get a boost from a constituency less than enthusiastic about his candidacy. Hesitancy over Obama among blue-collar and union voters might be neutralized by turnout to vote against a cluster of initiatives aimed at curbing the power of Colorado's unions. Amendment 47 would let workers opt out of joining a union; Initiative 59 bans unions that have collective-bargaining agreements with the state government from donating campaign cash. Angry union leaders have vowed to kills these measures. Professor Kenneth Bickers, chair of the political science department at the University of Colorado at Boulder, predicts "a kind...
Anyone in search of a new identity in the coming years might find it easiest to opt for becoming British. Robbers hijacked a security van on its way from Manchester to London Monday morning and made off with about 3,000 blank British passports and visas that were destined for embassies overseas. The Foreign Office said the heist amounted to a "serious breach of security" but insisted the blank documents are unusable because of their high-tech-chip security features. "A blank isn't able to be used for crossing a border," said a Foreign Office representative...
...target group's risk approximately 50%. Still, it may not be for you. If you have ever had a serious allergic reaction to gelatin or the antibiotic neomycin, you should not get the vaccine. If you have a disease affecting your immune system, like cancer or HIV/AIDS, you should opt out as well. And because the CDC recommendation is so new - it was announced this spring - you might want to check whether the $150 shot is covered by insurance before you get poked. The vaccine, unfortunately, wasn't an option for my patient, but it may be an option...
...possibility therefore looms of progress on the nuclear issue, but it's not yet the kind of breakthrough that might quiet Washington's hawkish critics of Iran. Still, if the Iranians do opt for some initial compromises, the debate is sure to become more complicated...