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...tennis, Roger Federer, who serves and volleys only around 10% of the time, has reigned supreme. And while women have always been more inclined to play from the back of the court, big-hitting groundstrokers such as Maria Sharapova and Serena and Venus Williams have all but shut the door on the serve-and-volley style ushered in by the now-retired Martina Navratilova and Jana Novotna...
...state of our politics, The Second Civil War, noted that Bush's presidency relied so narrowly on its conservative base that he lost the ability to do any deals with Democrats when his base refused to support him. The "base-first" strategy got him narrowly reelected in 2004, but shut down his legislative agenda when his second term began. The short-sighted strategy is what killed his Social Security plan in 2005 and, Brownstein points out, doomed his second effort to reform immigration...
Adolph, 26, arrived at the Zanmi Lasante Hospital in Thomonde, Haiti, so ravaged from advanced AIDS that doctors gave her days to live. At just 75 lb. (34 kg), she was covered in sores and couldn't walk, and her digestive system had practically shut down. But after 2 1/2 months of arv treatments, Adolph is no longer just clinging to life. Her wounds have healed, and she has enough energy to walk a mile to get water, babysit, help with chores and even do occasional fieldwork. She lives with her brother, his wife and their six children...
...Coke knows the risks well. In 2002, residents of Plachimada, a village in India's southern state of Kerala, accused the company's bottling plant there of depleting and polluting groundwater. Two years later, the local government forced Coke to shut down the plant. In 2006, when a New Delhi research group found high levels of pesticides in Coca-Cola and PepsiCo's locally produced soft drinks, several Indian states banned their sale. The incidents were particularly worrisome because they hurt Coke's brand in a rapidly developing market that's considered key to future growth...
...Merrill (Tony) McPeak served as Air Force chief of staff during the first Gulf War. An F-15 fighter pilot, the lanky McPeak can be outspoken ("I can't keep my mouth shut," he told TIME earlier this week when asked about his support for Obama). He was a controversial chief of staff, ordering a new uniform that was derided for making Air Force personnel look like Delta pilots - which was promptly dropped when he retired...