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...Long jump THE DRAMA In 2000, "Super Marion" aimed for five gold medals and won three. Giving birth last year and then becoming embroiled in doping allegations depleted her physically and emotionally; she failed to qualify in the 100 m and 200 m, events she won in Sydney. A slot could open for her in the 100--if a teammate is disqualified for doping. THE COMPETITION Jones' long-jump mark at the trials was her best in six years (she won bronze in 2000). Two Russians, Irina Simagina and Anna Pyatykh, will try to keep her from gold...
...Wednesday night, during the prime-time broadcast slot, Granholm delivered a speech decrying how the economy is resulting in Americans “being squeezed.” She said that factories in the Midwest are bleeding jobs, and that Americans have had to accept worse jobs to replace the ones they lost when they were outsourced to other countries...
...help establish a beachhead, they have carefully blended all the Vegas pomp at the Sands Macao into an Asian vibe. A feng shui master helped design every detail of the casino to ensure that the elements were in harmony, from replacing the slot machines' winning trio of 7's with lucky Chinese 8's (in Chinese, the word for "eight" rhymes with the word meaning "get rich") to rounding the high rollers' area with beehive curves to encourage its inhabitants to "leave their honey." The staff is more polite than the Chinese have come to expect...
...become the lungs of the building," says Foster. "They allow fresh air, light and views into the interiors." But there's a dematerializing spirit even in a building that didn't require new feats of engineering - the Arcos Bosques Corporativo in Mexico City, an arched tower with a vertical slot down its center that lightens the building's mass and brings the sky itself into play. The Spanish designer Santiago Calatrava is by training both an architect and an engineer, and his new high-rise projects wear their engineering on their sleeves. Turning Torso, an apartment and office tower under...
...Vegas Strip on a sliver of reclaimed land between two of the territory's islands. The Sands Macao carefully blends Vegas pomp with an Asian vibe. A feng shui master helped design every detail of the casino to ensure that the elements were in harmony, from replacing the slot machines' winning trio of 7's with lucky Chinese 8's (in Chinese, the word for eight rhymes with the word meaning get rich) to rounding the high rollers' area with beehive curves to encourage its inhabitants to "leave their honey." The staff is more polite than the Chinese expect...