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Perhaps the biggest change is that the new rules don't reward those circus-leap triple Axels to the exclusion of other skills. That benefits skaters like Meissner who have the big tricks but are more analytical and calculating enough to maximize their point totals with the minimum amount of exhausting big tricks. Under the new code of points (COP), as it's called, there is no hiding a weak spin, sloppy footwork or poor basics. It's a far more demanding and exacting measure of an athlete...
...from less than 1% five years ago, says Arthur Berg, vice president of marketing for KSL. "You used to see the wives in this age group go to the spas while the husbands played golf," Berg says. Now the men, driven to stay fit and attractive and to reward themselves for years of hard work, are enjoying everything from manicures to mud baths. "The stigma is gone," says Kirwan Rockefeller, a social and behavioral scientist and co-creator of the certificate program in spa and hospitality management at the University of California at Irvine. "[The TV show] Queer...
...with a $25 million reward at stake, Coleman says, "I like to have some proof." According to law enforcement and military sources, the Egyptian government has provided the U.S. with DNA from Zawahiri's brother, who is languishing in an Egyptian prison. That gives U.S. intelligence a scientific means to positively identify the fugitive Qaeda leader...
...Bush administration announced a series of international education initiatives last week to encourage more foreign students to study in the U.S., enable more American students to study abroad, and reward American students for learning languages critical to national security.Harvard officials said the initiatives are another step in the steady progress the federal government has made to remedy the drop in international enrollment in American universities that resulted from post-9/11 policies, which caused major delays and complications for many seeking student visas.Under-Secretary of State for Public Affairs and Public Diplomacy Karen Hughes told a summit of university presidents...
...drum major instinct." An extreme drum major "ends by trying to push others down to push himself up," he warned, driving racism in culture and arrogance in nations. Yet Jesus in the Bible account does not rebuke James and John for their ambition itself, but teaches instead that true reward follows humble service. Here King's message turned. "And the great issue of life," he declared, "is to harness the drum major instinct." He sketched the biography of supreme Christian sacrifice with clear echoes of his own turmoil, noting that the "tide of public opinion turned" against Jesus when...