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...believe the gap between the sophisticated cheats and the testers is closing," says Australian Sports Drug Agency spokesman Shaun Winnett, "but you can never give 100% guarantees." That's because the pattern hasn't changed: as scientists develop new tests for banned drugs, the cheats switch to substances authorities haven't heard...
...believe the gap between the sophisticated cheats and the testers is closing," says Australian Sports Drug Agency spokesman Shaun Winnett, "but you can never give 100% guarantees." That's because the pattern hasn't changed: as scientists develop new tests for banned drugs, the cheats switch to substances authorities haven't heard...
...Times Square movie palace last week, patrons who shelled out $10 each to see a new Tom Cruise movie, only to get David Hasselhoff as the star instead, angrily rushed the box office to demand full refunds. The studio admitted saving millions with the celluloid bait-and-switch but denied shortchanging customers. "Hey, guy," noted a senior executive, "Tom and Dave are both adult male Americans with all their limbs and faculties intact. Both of 'em can talk and kiss and land a punch, am I right? Let's not split hairs!" And, he pointed out, the movie...
...Laura's new cat is actually a dog. Insiders claim that the President's mislabeling of his pet was the handiwork of White House political guru Karl Rove. With America's population of cat owners far exceeding that of dog owners, Rove is said to have advocated the nomenclatural switch as a slam-dunk means of expanding Bush's national support base in an election year. The President's insistence on patting his golden retriever and calling him a Siamese during a recent Larry King Live had alarmed even Republicans, but the revelation that it was "just election-year politics...
...this moment last Wednesday, Singh has orders to fly to the floods where, skirting the wrecks of two other crashed relief choppers, he drops packets of rice, sugar cane, matches and candles to marooned villagers who are crowding onto treetops and roofs. But Singh knows the mission could switch to the dry side at anytime. "Hundreds of thousands of people are starving," sighs the 35-year-old pilot. "Whatever we do, it's chicken feed...