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...Sikharulidze]--we've toured together--and they are great skaters. I feel sad for them as well as for Jamie [Sale] and David [Pelletier], sad that their big moment was lost amid yet another judging dispute. But the few technical mistakes Yelena and Anton made in their program--however slight--were unfortunately still mistakes. So, watching it on television, I was both surprised and not surprised when Jamie and David were given the silver. I thought: "Here we go again. That's figure skating...
...down from his chair, despite his considerable girth and advanced age (78). In between throws and sips of tea, he coaches a Time correspondent in the finer points of the sport. "Be careful of the topography," he warns, using his palm to illustrate the hazards. "Even a slight grade can send the ball off course...
...third game followed the precedent set by the first two, with the Crimson taking a slight advantage, but the Pride recovered with a kill to go up, 16-15. The two teams then exchanged points until Pride swingman Clay Spiegel reeled off two consecutive service aces to break open the game...
...hear it for wrinkles--for those fabulous frown lines and high-kicking crow's-feet. What crucial moods they so subtly express! With a slight tightening of the skin between the eyebrows, bosses can communicate killer exasperation. Moms, salesclerks and 30-ish women at singles bars can signal displeasure without raising their voices. And consider the alpha male: why, Clint Eastwood with an unlined face would just be... Dick Clark. Wrinkles were surely what George Orwell had in mind when he wrote that at 50 everyone has the face he deserves...
...relentlessly confident 1980s, the tatami makers of Kagami sent a delegation to teach Chinese farmers how to raise igusa and weave tatami. "I had a slight feeling of dread," admits 33-year-old farmer Yasushi Furushima, who visited China a few years afterward. "But their quantity wasn't very good." China, of course, caught up fast: today, its exports account for more than two-thirds of the tatami market in Japan. In a last ditch measure to protect its farmers, Japan last year slapped import duties on Chinese tatami, along with leeks and shiitake mushrooms, other endangered cash crops...