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...whether doping poses a fatal threat to this most grueling of endurance sports. French television interviewed fans in the hills above the southern French town of Lavelanet after news of Riccò's drug ouster broke. "You have to expect it by now," said one father, holding his young son in his arms. "It's sad." After Rasmussen was sent home by his Rabobank team last year for refusing to answer questions about his training regimen, daily paper France Soir declared the "death of the Tour de France on July...
...studio. Some are fellow artists and dealers from the community several thousand strong occupying the courtyards and alleys here in Songzhuang, in Beijing's eastern suburbs. The conversation ranges from gossip about colleagues through the sources of artistic inspiration to the merits of colleges in Australia, where Lu's son is studying. Later, Lu and I hop into his brand-new, lime green Jaguar and drive over to the site of the sprawling house he is having built overlooking a small lake. Proudly showing off the view from the second floor, Lu extols the virtues of living in Songzhuang...
...son of a "Western" doctor from India, I am appalled by this. Technology may be vibrantly alive in the U.S. - cell phones and laptops are everywhere - but faith in the science that produces this technology has weakened in the past decade. Evidence ranges from the proliferation of street-side palmists all the way to the White House: in 2005, the religious fundamentalists who oppose Darwin's theory of evolution got a boost when President Bush suggested that American schools should have the freedom to choose instead to teach intelligent design - a slick, pseudoscientific version of Biblical creationism. To a visitor...
...insect world so far. The rest, like Barclays' almond-shaped mystery bug, are perfectly happy to crawl along without any christening or approval from their relatively gargantuan cohabitants. But that won't stop scientists like Barclay from trying. For him, the question asked by his five-year old son last March is a calling he still feels compelled to answer...
Still, Mubarak turned 80 this year; and a succession must be devised. New parliamentary elections will take place in 2010; and Presidential elections in 2011. Mubarak's son, Gamal, has always seemed an easy pick as the dynastic candidate, but he is not a member of the officer corps, from which every leader since the 1950s has emerged. There is no other obvious alternative. Meanwhile, the rapidly expanding, impoverished and young population of Egypt will continue to gravitate toward the outlaw appeal of the Muslim Brotherhood...