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...astounding 33 medals in the pool. In a week in which some big fish got reeled in--Australian sensation Ian Thorpe, Dutch wonderboy Pieter van den Hoogenband and the Russian Rocket Alexander Popov each found himself bettered in one race or another--nobody caught Krayzelburg. Indeed, after a rough start, the rest of the U.S. team outswam the favored Australians, who performed before raucous hometown crowds. Swimming is the Olympics in Australia, yet the U.S. medal haul was the biggest since the boycott-depleted 1984 Games in Los Angeles...
...Bryants are fishermen, and a few feet from their home, the studio team constructed a smokehouse out of scrapped wood and concrete gathered from an imploded silo. The students set colored bottles in the rough walls to draw in light and capped the swooping roof with layers of discarded highway signs. "We try to be innovative, economical and appropriate as possible, reusing materials that otherwise will be discarded," says Mockbee. The result can be surprisingly pleasing to the eye. The Bryants' smokehouse, for example, conjures up Le Corbusier's seminal chapel in Ronchamp, France. The Bryant home and smokehouse, however...
...Rough Road Ahead...
...Bruijn and the Dutch kept their chins forward and their chests out, as whispers about performance-enhancing drugs accompanied each milestone. "I had a really rough time with the accusations," said De Bruijn, who won the 50-m and 100-m freestyle events and the 100-m butterfly and suggested other swimmers were jealous of her achievements. There was no rush of congratulations from her rivals last week. "If you get a world record, they just want to chop your head off," said De Bruijn. U.S. veteran Jenny Thompson thought it was sad when "everyone who does well gets questioned...
...spectacularly profitable act of reinvention. The firm's floundering share price nudged upward after the June announcement, and it got another boost last month, when earnings reports showed profits trebling in the first half of the year. The surge enabled De Beers to pare down its stockpile of rough diamonds--which, because the company no longer has the ability to set prices, has become a wasting asset. De Beers plans to reduce the stockpile by $1.5 billion next year--and to pump the savings into ad campaigns aimed at fostering consumer demand. The company has also launched an aggressive effort...