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Every visitor to Bali faces that all-important question: where to enjoy sundowners? There are many possible answers, but Sunset On Six (or simply S.O.S.) is the one you'll currently hear from the party crowd...
...course there's plenty of choice if you want to dine out, and Leith's two Michelin-starred chefs compete hard for visitors' custom. At the ripe old age of 29, Tom Kitchin, www.thekitchin.com, became the youngest Scot to receive the ranking - just six months after he opened his restaurant in a renovated whisky warehouse in 2006. His cooking has a pronounced French influence, partly stemming from his training with Alain Ducasse, and includes inventive dishes such as braised calf-foot-and-shin "fingers," served with sautéed organic snails from Devon and a garlic and parsley risotto. Across...
China's table-tennis success inspired the country's sports officials to apply the same model to medal-rich Olympic disciplines. In addition to diving, in which the Chinese won six of an available eight gold medals in Athens, the country is now a powerhouse in weight-lifting and shooting, neither of which was a popular event before the sports bureaucrats got involved. China's first Taekwondo national team was formed in 1995, when officials noticed that few athletes outside of South Korea competed in the martial art. Five years later, in Sydney, China won an Olympic gold...
...asked to spread his palm and stack as many .22-cal. bullets on top of one another as he could. Ding managed a tower of eight--a feat of nervelessness, a quality essential in a competitive archer. "We're only interested in children who can pile up more than six bullets," says Qingdao archery coach Qu Yuefeng, who ticks off other attributes she requires in potential students: wide shoulders, a calm demeanor and good vision. Ding fulfilled every requirement, even though he admits he's not a "very sporty boy." Training is often dull. In his first year...
Then there are the less honorable methods China has used to cultivate sporting success. Just before the Sydney Games, when antidoping officials announced they would be administering a new test for the synthetic endurance booster erythropoietin, the Chinese Olympic squad was suddenly pruned about 10%. Six years earlier, at the Asian Games, 11 Chinese athletes were caught doping. Of course, athletes from other countries cheat too--witness U.S. track star Marion Jones' downfall. But there's a difference between individuals making the choice to dope and kids unknowingly swallowing whatever their sports-school coaches give them, which is what several...