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...opening his routine with an awesome combination of a quadruple toe loop, a triple toe loop and a double toe loop, followed by a triple Axel-double toe. Although his athleticism and signature Sex Bomb exhibition routines?he skates to the Tom Jones song wearing a skin-colored muscle suit?have made Plushenko a pin-up star back home, the Russian tellingly avoided paying homage to the state as Soviet athletes once felt obliged to do. "I have a great coach," said Plushenko, dodging a question about whether his victory was rooted in the Russian sports system. "I have also...
...need to be able to invest money in staff and marketing,” Hinkle said. “We have not been able to do that because we have been operating by the skin of the teeth...
Never mind applying creams and lotions-if you could relieve a skin ailment simply by the kind of clothes you wear, or the bed linen you use, wouldn't you? The Handloom Weavers Development Society in Kerala, India, hopes so. The nonprofit organization-based in Thumbod, a tiny village of swaying palms an hour outside the state capital of Trivandrum-has infused yarn with organic herbs and plant extracts, and claims that regular contact with cloth made from this material will relieve itches, rashes and other skin disorders...
...research needs to be done. But the cloth does seem to show some promise. A trial conducted by Kerala's Government Ayurveda College concluded that after using bedding, rugs and towels made from ayurvastra for one month, patients suffering from eczema, psoriasis and (curiously, because it is not a skin complaint) rheumatism showed a "marked improvement." This was sufficient to persuade the state government to give the weavers a grant of $250,000, which they're spending on a new medicinal-dye works...
...Canadians embrace the sport more fervently and play it more aggressively than any other nationality does. "They're gritty, feisty, cocky at times in a way where they carry an aura," says Granato, who will be part of NBC's Olympic and NHL broadcasting crew. "They get under your skin...