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...Salt Lake City is thousands of miles from the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, but the shadows of those crumbled buildings will nevertheless loom large over the Winter Games. This week, Attorney General John Ashcroft acknowledged unprecedented safety concerns by assigning still more federal officers to an already massive law enforcement presence...
...engaged to ski technician John Mulligan - though she thinks she skis better "when I'm not in love" - she will try in Salt Lake City to cap her career with a gold in the downhill, her signature event. After failing to finish in the top 30 at last week's World Cup race in Cortina, Italy, she won't have the chance to duplicate her surprise gold medal performance in the super-G at the '98 Nagano Games...
...fortune has deserted Maier, who had a motorcycle accident in August, leaving him with compound fractures in his lower right leg and keeping him off his skis until December. Though he worked hard in the gym to make the team for Salt Lake City, last week he had to admit defeat. Which leaves Eberharter as top tip for Olympic honors. With four downhill victories this season, as well as super-Gs at Val d'Isère and Kitzbühel, Eberharter is brimming with confidence. "He's an inspiration," says American slalom specialist Bode Miller...
...will find profiles of some of the athletes everyone will be watching, photo essays of past Olympiads and an archive of TIME's coverage of the Olympic Games. Once the Games begin, we will file dispatches on the athletes, events and environs of the 19th Winter Games in Salt Lake City, Utah. At time.com/olympics2002...
GETTING STONED? If you're one of the 10% of Americans who have had a kidney stone, you may have been told to cut down on calcium to prevent a recurrence. Well, you can forget that. Italian researchers report that a diet low in salt and very low in protein (about 4 oz. daily)--and with a normal intake of calcium--is significantly better at preventing the painful problem. Even more surprising, the researchers found that low-calcium diets may actually promote kidney stones...