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...Chambers broke 10 sec. and eventually went as low as 9.87. He was a favorite for gold in Athens until he was banned from the Olympics for life after testing positive last year to the steroid tetrahydrogestrinone. And Shirvington? He won't be in Athens either, having made himself sick trying to achieve a time that appears to be beyond his body's natural limits...
...nationwide passion for sweaty competition. Unlike Americans or Australians, the vast majority of Chinese are not sporty people who tote racquets or join gyms. China's international athletic success is about nationalism; it is the physical expression of a resurgent country, a rebuttal to its history as the "sick man of Asia" exploited by colonialists during the waning days of the Qing dynasty. The average Chinese?for whom supporting the motherland in athletic competition is one of the few instances in which mass, spontaneous celebration is allowed?is conditioned to see sporting victories as a metaphor for China's ascendance...
...Last November three people died and 600 became ill with hepatitis A from unsanitary Mexican scallions at a Pennsylvania restaurant. Likewise, hundreds have fallen ill over the past decade after eating Mexican cantaloupes and strawberries and Guatemalan raspberries. "Americans prefer American produce because they don't want to get sick," says Chuck Obern, a Florida vegetable farmer. COOL, he says, allows him to "promote my wares with information rather than resort to tariffs...
...sick of rap, grunge and heavy metal, Chip Davis could be your musicmeister. You may not have heard of him, but his uplifting, rhythmic arrangements are some of the most listened-to music in America. Sales of Mannheim Steamroller albums, which feature instruments from harpsichord to synthesizer, with a heavy dose of strings, are past the 32 million--album mark, and that's not even counting 10 million other records Davis sold in the 1970s after he co-wrote a sound track for the hit movie Convoy, starring Kris Kristofferson. In the past 15 years, Davis has racked up more...
...when my mum asked that I call her every night while I was traveling on the West Coast, I thought it was mildly excessive. After all, I am in New Zealand, where people drive on the left, and things are so clean you have to struggle to get sick. But I agreed nonetheless—I had a phone card and a cell phone. How hard could it be to make mum happy...