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...Such contracts, of course, pale in comparison with the frenzy that will accompany the Beijing Games. Hundreds of multinationals are already jockeying for a chance to bid for Chinese ad contracts once Athens wraps up. To prove that the Chinese capital is worthy of such lavish attention, Beijing earlier this month announced its latest urban makeover campaign: $12 million for thousands of new toilets, including a stable of self-cleaning "five-star" lavatories. Already, Chinese tourists in Athens are sniping about how little Greece has to show off for its Olympics. "Athens is in Europe, but it is quite undeveloped...
...slopes seem high after a few hours of traveling in only two dimensions, but a brief scramble over the rocks puts you on the lip. A wedge-tailed eagle, glossy black against the sunburnt sky, patrols the circumference in majestic sweeping curves. Chunks of broken sandstone glow a warm pale orange; welded under and around them are balls of rust-colored shale, their surfaces pitted and folded - oxidized remnants of the meteorite. New nickel-bearing minerals were found here, one named reevesite after the crater's discoverer...
...sound is of water dripping somewhere. As he crouches on the slimy ledge among the slender tips of stalactites, the torch light suddenly catches splashes of color on the chamber's far side. There are about 15 stencils, some in such a rich russet they almost glow against the pale limestone, silhouettes of adult hands both left and right, one with a forearm also stenciled, several others with curiously stunted splayed fingers, and some partly obscured by a serrated fringe of stalactites. The unmistakable outline of a child's hand sits slightly apart from and lower than the others...
Idioms of play On a recent Saturday morning in New York, I stopped by a basketball court in a park to watch two men work out with a soccer ball. Shirtless with shaved heads and pale skin, they had taken up positions at opposite ends of the court and were playing the ball to one another through the air, crosses whizzed low and hard through the air that nary a touch at the near post would convert into a goal on match day. Thwack, one would take the ball square on his bared chest and then as it landed, fire...
HOLLYWOOD HAIR Four years later, Carter's pale strands did him in. He was defeated by Ronald Reagan, whose shiny, Hollywood locks had been Brylcreemed into obedience...