Word: strides
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...statehood--and the financial perks that will make that statehood work. But these enticements may be insufficient considering that when Arafat thinks of Jerusalem, he ceases to see himself as a politician. Instead he envisions himself emblazoned across the pages of history with the only two Islamic leaders to stride victorious into Jerusalem, securing the holy city for the Muslim faithful. Caliph Omar bin Khattab won the city for Islam in the seventh century. Saladin liberated it from Christian Crusaders 550 years later. The Palestinian leader can compromise on refugees, on territory, even on the parameters of statehood. But Arafat...
...that imperfect test for EPO--use it anyway. As gold medal marathoner Frank Shorter, now chairman of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, says, knowing a test is looming will knock cheaters off stride. Shorter says that if there is no EPO test at Sydney, then every endurance or strength performance is suspect. He's right. And when sport becomes suspect--when no one believes in it--it's no longer worth watching...
...refill your water bottle, and now, feeling more righteous than is good for you, you ascend purposefully and without pause to the rim and accept the silent admiration of the tourists there, who step back to let you pass. And you stride into the lodge and go to your room and shower and put on clean clothes and order a hero-size gin and tonic and sit on the balcony and look out at the canyon blazing red and orange in the sunset, and you feel a moral superiority that only time can diminish. What is a vacation...
...urges visitors to PROTECT OUR NATURIST VILLAGE, asserting that "it is unique and a privilege" to be here. But most naturists don't talk much about the virtues of their lifestyle. And the clothed employees at the various shops and restaurants take their constant encounters with the unclothed in stride. Delphine, the receptionist at the Hotel Eve, even tells me that "naturists are more cool and less stressed than people in the textile world...
...online at digiwalker.com It's made by a Japanese company called Yamax and distributed in the U.S. by a Kansas City, Mo., outfit called New Lifestyles. It arrived in the mail a few days later with a little instruction booklet that explained how to calibrate the unit to my stride. That took about five minutes. There was nothing more to do but clip it to my belt and start walking...