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Still, Yi's career almost ended before it began. Halfway through his first 400-m training run at the full-time sports school, Yi stopped abruptly, gasping for breath, tears rolling down his cheeks. "I wanted to quit," Yi says. "I had never lived away from home before, and I had no idea if I could make it as an athlete." But his body kept growing, and so did his determination to make the best of a difficult situation. Yi still preferred watching cartoons to NBA games, but by the time he joined Guangdong's professional Chinese Basketball Association...
...reason is a pair of forces known as hedonic adaptation and social comparison. Translation: when you get something new, the thrill quickly wears off, and even if it didn't, there's always someone out there who has something better. The answer? Quit the money chase--or at least run more slowly--and devote more time to family, friends and home. These things, the study shows, really do pay higher returns in happiness. --By Jeffrey Kluger
...accept gay marriage and who welcome gay associates, ideas and modes of behavior into their homes, lives and politics. These people are called liberals. Sullivan's problem is not that he's gay; it's that he has been hanging out with the wrong political crowd. He ought to quit spurning the hand of welcome and start working toward a liberal majority. It will be better for the country, better for the environment, better for the economy and better for him. JANE SMILEY Carmel Valley, Calif...
...apprentice member of the axis of evil. The U.S. believed he had approved the sale of a sophisticated air-defense system to Saddam, and he was publicly accused of ordering the kidnapping and murder of a crusading journalist. Washington gave public support to thousands of demonstrators who demanded Kuchma quit last September. That was then; now Washington has another view. In February, Ukraine sent a 448-strong chemical-defense battalion to join coalition forces in Kuwait, and Americans are training the Ukrainians now deploying in Iraq. The first group flew out on Aug. 7. And criticism from Washington about Ukraine...
...could be fined up to $350,000 and spend 12 months in jail. MEANWHILE IN FRANCE ... Almost Poached President George W. Bush's personal chef, Walter Scheib, got steamed when jokers from a French TV show - disguised as President Chirac's wife Bernadette and her secretary - tempted him to quit the White House for a job in Chirac's kitchens. The fake first lady told Scheib her husband could no longer stomach French food, and craved hamburgers...