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...based on a percentage of your home's value, usually 1% to 5%, instead of a flat $500 or $1,000 deductible. So, for example, if you have insured a $300,000 house that has a 2% deductible up front for any qualifying wind event, your out-of-pocket expenses would come...
...handbook as "food"?he had to shed 4 kg in four days to make the qualifying weight in Athens?later apologized for what he modestly considers his underwhelming physique. "I think my muscles are kind of small," says Shi, his compact body rippling with the kind of brawn a pocket Popeye might enjoy after a hefty serving of spinach spanakopita. "Please don't judge my body too much, or I will get embarrassed...
...afraid with all the things you're not supposed to do. You can't look the bear in the eye. You can't have any food on you. You can't chew gum. You're thinking, "How trained is this bear? If I have a jelly bean in my pocket, he'll maul everyone...
...guts beat grace. Thursday night at Athens' Olympic Indoor Hall, Carly Patterson bounced back from a klutzy performance in the team event and pranced, pirouetted and double-piked her way to gold in gymnastics' marquee event, the women's individual all-around competition. The 16-year-old pocket dynamo from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, became the first American woman to claim the medal since Mary Lou Retton in 1984. "You dream about this your whole life," she marveled afterwards. "Then you win the gold medal." Or you dream about it your whole life, then lose. That's what happened to Patterson...
...43rd place in Sydney. But the 32-year-old runner is not sure she'll even be competing. Although her airfare, as well as that of fellow marathoner Gil Da Cruz Trindade, was paid by the International Olympic Committee, funds that had been raised in Australia for their pocket money have mysteriously gone missing. Sitting in a caf? in the Olympic Village and hesitating over the price of bottled water, Amaral isn't sure she'll be able to afford to stay until the marathon is run in late August. "We will have to fly back home if the money...