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Some of the most sought-after tickets at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney were for the women's beach volleyball. Nice as it would be to believe that all those - predominantly male - spectators were interested in was the skill and athleticism of the players, there was a slight suspicion that the ladies' abbreviated costumes may have added to the attraction. Anna Kournikova has amply demonstrated that winning isn't everything. Or, indeed, anything. The tennis player who has never won a singles title is known more for underwear ads than on-court abilities. Sex and sport have become a heady...
...Mark Turner’s fifth album, Dharma Days, he displays his eclectic breadth of taste in jazz music and his great skill and virtuosity in the art of playing the tenor saxophone. Although the album showcases nine of Turner’s own compositions, the album is as much led by guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel as it is by Turner. Like most contemporary saxophonists, Turner’s work is greatly influenced by John Coltrane, especially Coltrane’s post-bop period. The first and third songs, “Iverson’s Odyssey?...
...Jones, to hire as a package deliveryman. Smith is slightly more qualified; but Smith is also qualified to take a more productive job as, say, an airline mechanic. Smith should really become an airline mechanic and leave the package delivery job for Jones, who has a more limited skill set. However, only the free market can ensure that the more urgent need for airline mechanics is reflected in a higher wage...
...inventors of the gene gun thinks that shooting viral DNA could someday replace traditional vaccines. Dr. Stephen Johnston, director of the Center for Biomedical Inventions at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, is using medicine's newfound skill at sequencing genomes to figure out precisely what genes express, or turn on, when a bug first enters a host's cells. Using microarrays, also known as "DNA chips," Johnston is working to identify those genes, then snip them from a pathogen's genome and use them, or the proteins they make, as vaccines to trigger an immune response...
Sept. 11 cast another shadow over the relationship. Vajpayee had been enjoying the glow of a growing friendship with the U.S. Washington liked the way he reined in his party's hotheads and diluted its hard-line agenda, and admired his skill at holding together his fractious coalition for an unprecedented three years. He had almost persuaded the U.S. to blacklist Pakistan as a terrorist state for supporting the Kashmir jihadis, while practicing admirable restraint by not retaliating directly against Pakistan...