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...result of recent reforms, actually take over many of the Presidential powers of his onetime nemesis, Yushchenko. The flamboyant Yuliya Tymoshenko, Yuschchenko's own onetime revolutionary partner and prime minister and now leader of the parliament's Byut faction, decried ?the sellout of the Orange Revolution" and pledged "stiff opposition? to the hatching coalition government of Yanukovych's PR faction and Yushchenko's Our Ukraine (OU) bloc...
...couldn't think of anything I'd rather do than shoot a killer and watch his blood trace a slimy path across the floor." The fights he gets into are manuals for barroom brawlers. Here's a how-to from My Gun Is Quick: "I jammed four big, stiff fingers into his gut right above the navel and he snapped shut like a jackknife. I opened him up again with an openhanded slap that left a blush across his mouth that was going to stay for a while." Mike unholsters his .45 and "just for effect I stuck...
...Unless, of course, they are already among the growing number of Americans patronizing sites like BETonSports.com. After all, for something considered illegal by the U.S. Department of Justice, online gambling has done pretty well against stiff odds. U.S. wagerers last year poured around $5.4 billion into the kind of offshore Internet gaming sites that the DOJ has been struggling to bring to heel. As one British online gaming firm boasted in a recent Times Square billboard: "EVERYBODY BETS." That may well be true, but the Justice Department is out to show that the luck of longtime winners like Carruthers...
...Firewire Surfboards and France's Salomon have caught the attention of high-ranking pros by bringing innovative materials and construction methods to surfboards, some that had already worked wonders for skis, snowboards and the wings of Boeing Dreamliners. New designs using expanded polystyrene foam (EPS), epoxy resins and stiff sheets of carbon fiber add responsiveness and maneuverability to the boards. The buzzword: "flex memory"--or "flex"--the way a board snaps back into its original shape in a turn or maneuver. "The materials have a memory of the original curve, and they return to that curve very quickly," says Firewire...
Resistance varies from country to country. Nigeria, Mali and Equatorial Guinea, like Uganda, are mainstreaming traditional practitioners. But in South Africa, legislation formalizing the role of healers has met stiff opposition from doctors. "Can you imagine the chaos that would take place in South Africa if traditional healers are allowed to authorize people to receive pensions and disability grants?" says Heinrich Botes of the nonprofit group Doctors for Life International...