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...years later, Tsukahara has broken free from these emotional shackles. "Yes, I'm happy for my country," he said, just minutes after accepting his first-ever Olympic gold. "But I'm also happy for my family, my coach, my friends and even myself." Teammate Hiroyuki Tomita, who nailed a spectacular 9.850 high-bar routine to clinch Japan's hairbreadth victory was even more blunt: "People say there must have been lots of pressure, but I think there's less pressure today, because there's not so much national pride depending on each victory...
...future of this spectacular species may depend on such experiments. Last fall animal conservationists were caught catnapping when a new survey revealed a sharp and unexpected drop in Africa's lion population. While the cat-conservation world was worried about the fate of Asia's endangered tigers, lions--considered vulnerable but not endangered--were quietly slipping toward oblivion. Ten years ago, the species was thought to number as many as 100,000. But the new appraisal, made public last September and published in the journal Oryx in January by Hans Bauer of Leiden University and Sarel van der Merwe...
...hard to match. In the end, American teenager Michael Phelps did not reach the prize he was aiming for - the most gold medals won in a single Games - but it would be churlish to suggest that his haul of six gold and two bronze was anything less than spectacular. And the fans who streamed into the Aquatic Center - which was sold out every evening, unlike so many other venues - saw a week of thrilling races with an array of breakout stars like Japan's Kosuke Kitajima, who swept the men's breaststroke races, and France's Laure Manaudou, just...
...bankruptcy, the Italian food-and-dairy conglomerate Parmalat was desperate for money. Officially, it had j3.95 billion in cash on its books; in reality, it had debts of j14 billion and no cash at all. Unless the firm could raise new money fast, it would collapse and the most spectacular alleged fraud in European corporate history would be exposed. At that point, two of Europe's biggest banks - Switzerland's UBS and Germany's Deutsche Bank - stepped in. Both injected fresh funds into Parmalat - but at a huge cost to the fast-sinking company. Deutsche Bank kept it afloat...
...Recruiting spectacular faculty is always a slow process,” he said. “It’s something you want to do carefully and thoughtfully...