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...Hansen won?t be the only one needing some fuel - finishing third in the relay, while respectable, was less than the U.S. men expected of themselves. ?It?s a little disappointing to get this medal,? said Phelps, who swam the second leg of the relay. ?Obviously, we wanted gold.? Ian Crocker, the lead-off swimmer, was under his usual pace because of a bacterial infection; he?s been fighting a sore throat for three days but decided not to take antibiotics. Bob Bowman, Phelps? coach and the assistant coach for the U.S. men, noted that ?It was a rough night...
...Though few pugilistic pundits give Somluck a realistic chance in Athens (he was almost bounced from the team recently for missing training sessions), his teammate Somjit Jongjohor could well become Thailand's third-ever gold medalist. Somjit, the 2003 world amateur flyweight champion, is a slick boxer with a talent for weaving out of trouble and counterpunching his way to victory. But even if he stumbles in Athens, Somjit has a backup career?like Somluck, he's recorded his own album...
...workers in open-plan offices distinguish their own incoming calls from those of others. So in the fall of 1998, Radiolinja launched the world's first commercially available ring-tone service, allowing users to download songs like Smoke on the Water and the Finnish national anthem. An industry was born, and last year about 2.6 billion ring tones - those musical ditties that sound off when a mobile phone receives a call - were downloaded worldwide, one-third of them in Japan. Delivered by the Internet or text message, they account for 80-95% of a "phone personalization" market that was worth...
...relatives wondered how I’d ever get by here. I like the amenities of life in the developed world—decent cups of tea served loose leaf with similarly decent china, pan-Asian cuisine, good gin, clean bathrooms with toilets instead of ceramic holes. The Third World, despite my academic interest in its colonization, just didn’t seem to fit with my palate or hygienic pattern...
Kerry's toughest political battle, at least until now, was his 1996 fight for re-election against Massachusetts' popular Republican Governor William Weld. That election drew into Kerry's world the storied, sharp-elbowed media consultant Bob Shrum, who toughened Kerry's ads and message. Shrum made his name as a speechwriter for Edward Kennedy's failed 1980 presidential campaign, and no Democrat who was there will ever forget how Kennedy brought down the house at the Democratic Convention that year with the Shrum-crafted line that "the dream shall never die." It's that kind of magic candidates...