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...night has peaked early, but there are other delights for other nations - a silver for Markus Rogan in the 100-m backstroke prompts a delighted Austrian to cry, "First swimming medal for Austria since 1912!" "I'd keep quiet about that if I were you, mate," comes the inevitable Australian riposte...
...dentist whose recollections of wartime internment are so gruesome that Booth endures the drill without novocaine or complaint. He learns how to eat boiled beetles, polish ancestral bones during the Festival of Hungry Ghosts and speak rudimentary Cantonese. He spends long afternoons wandering around what was then a quiet city of green hills and mysterious alleys, catching geckos and digging up spent bullets?and, one scary day, the skeleton of a Japanese soldier. After watching a sailor pinch a bar girl on the bottom, he tries out that sign of affection on his family's elderly Chinese maid, with disastrous...
...seen as "a special genius who really needs support in order to retain the happiness that he has found." She says she has known him for more than 30 years and, after a long correspondence and several visits, settled down with him in 2000. Their life together has been quiet, she tells Time: they listen to 1950s crooner Jackie Wilson, discuss chess techniques, and eat in most nights. "Our life is ordinary," she says, adding that Fischer is well-suited to Japan. "He doesn't like taking medications or going to doctors. He'd prefer to heal in an onsen...
...Apparently people like it better than 'be good.'" LARRY PAGE, Google co-founder, explaining the company motto, "Don't Be Evil," to Playboy magazine. The interview has troubled investors, as it may have violated laws requiring a "quiet period" before the Internet firm's initial public offering
...place is safe from the modern obsession with all things natural and New Age. Not even the medieval English town of Totnes. Nestled in the lush pastures and wheatfields near Dartmoor in southern Devon, Totnes for decades made a quiet living from cream teas, antiques and postcards. But these days, it's a magnet for urban refugees running the kinds of bohemian businesses normally associated with trendy metropolitan neighborhoods...