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...scientists, the best method for narrowing down a person's age is a combination of five weighted factors known as the Complex Method. It includes analysis of the pubic bones that lie just under the navel along with some vertebral bones, both sets of which start out rough in youngsters but smooth out over time; images of the femur, or thigh bone, which becomes thinner and loses bone mineral over time; dental wear; and closure of the cranium. However, it's unlikely that IOC or FIG officials will go so far as to impose these types of biological tests...
...There's a common misperception that the so-called "finesse" teams, the squads with great technical precision like Argentina, can't play rough. But international hoops is actually much more physical than the NBA. The refs let more go; in the NBA, every hand check is a federal offense. So Argentina's strategy was clear: knock the Americans to the floor early and often. In the first quarter, Argentina's Luis Scola, a 6-ft, 9-in. 230 lb. center, gave America's Dwight Howard a good tug. The 6-ft,. 11-in., 265 lb. Howard makes Mr. Universe look...
...been a rough few weeks for Afghanistan's President, Hamid Karzai. Violence in his insurgency-wracked nation reached new levels on Aug. 18 when the Taliban attacked French troops belonging to the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) just 30 miles (50 km) from the capital Kabul; 10 Frenchmen died and another 21 were wounded. The next day, militants massed against one of the biggest U.S. bases in the country, launching a coordinated attack that included six suicide bombers. Just a week earlier, militants had killed three foreign aid workers and their Afghan driver, prompting international aid missions to reconsider...
...Breaking Dawn it seems as though you purposefully avoid a fight scene at the end of the book. Had you planned that all along? -Travis Baldwin, Oxford, AlabamaThat is the original ending to the first rough draft I ever did of Breaking Dawn, back in 2003. It was always for me more like a courtroom drama, which is one of my few TV addictions, rather than a battle scene. It was always about outmaneuvering someone mentally; I knew that if it turned into a physical battle, there was never going to be a winner. That was the ending that really...
...example, have yet to be discovered. Russia has said that Georgian government troops and militia had begun ethnic cleansing when they tried to retake the breakaway region, and South Ossetian Interior Minister Mikhail Minzayev has estimated 2,100 dead. (Western journalists in the area have come up with rough estimates of 500 to 600 dead.) Gogia said the South Ossetian and Russian claims of more than 1,000 dead are "inflated, exaggerated. There is no way to say a genocide take place. If there were 2,000 dead, we would have 6,000 wounded, and we have seen nothing like...