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...Agency, said recently. "I just want every athlete in Athens to be clean." They won't be. "We believe the gap between the sophisticated cheats and the testers is closing," says Australian Sports Drug Agency spokesman Shaun Winnett, "but you can never give 100% guarantees." That's because the pattern hasn't changed: as scientists develop new tests for banned drugs, the cheats switch to substances authorities haven't heard...
...inconceivable how this court can explain its continual pattern of revictimizing this 20-year-old girl." JOHN CLUNE, attorney for Kobe Bryant's accuser in his rape case, whose name was revealed when sealed documents were mistakenly posted on the Internet, in the third such slipup...
...decent cups of tea served loose leaf with similarly decent china, pan-Asian cuisine, good gin, clean bathrooms with toilets instead of ceramic holes. The Third World, despite my academic interest in its colonization, just didn’t seem to fit with my palate or hygienic pattern...
...pattern. these people left town without paying there account is the sign that greets those entering the Menzies roadhouse. Even its ebullient owners, Robert and Christine Earnshaw, didn't mean to stick around for quite so long. He was an upholsterer from Perth whose first wife came to work at the service station; 18 years his junior, Yorkshire-born Christine, 45, stopped in Menzies while touring Australia. But after 12 years together at the roadhouse, they're ready to sell up. "It's an experience I wouldn't have missed, living here," says Earnshaw, who also runs the town...
...Foster. Even before it opened in April, it was known as the gherkin because it rises against the sky like a plump green pickle. (And yes, nobody has missed the more phallic interpretations.) It too has a triangular steel trusswork, a structural necessity that doubles as a twirling surface pattern. But the building's signal feature is the inclusion of large interior gardens throughout. "Those become the lungs of the building," says Foster. "They allow fresh air, light and views into the interiors." But there's a dematerializing spirit even in a building that didn't require new feats...