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Other winners this year, ranging in age from 29 to 60, include a seismologist who works to prevent natural disasters in third-world countries, a glass bead artist, and an anthropologist who uses fossilized plants to understand ancient cultures...
Payne experienced packed 16-hour days of scriptural study and service, during which he came to appreciate life in a third world country and the value of helping others...
Setting aside conspiracy theorists, many on this side of the pond see our current situation as an almost inevitable by-product of a world increasingly polarized into “haves” (the West) and “have-nots” (the Third World). Globalization has both exacerbated this polarization, and educated these latter day sans culottes of the Third World into an increasingly hostile posture towards the West. For many, that means principally the United States. In extremis, that hostility can be transmogrified into proactive terrorism...
...Westwood has had a rotten year. The English golfer hasn't won all season. His best finish was 15th, at last month's NEC Invitational in Seattle. Last year, he was ranked No. 4 in the world. Now he's No. 133, the lowest of any player at next week's Ryder Cup. People keep asking whether this fading star has any shine left for his team, and it's getting on his nerves. "People put too much emphasis on [the Cup]," he said two weeks ago, after missing the cut at the European Masters in Switzerland. "It's supposed...
...soccer team. What happens when politics and football meet? Last Thursday Chung Mong-joon, head of the South Korean Football Association, said he'd run for president in the December elections, confirming speculation that has gathered force since Korea's remarkable World Cup run. Chung, also an independent legislator in the National Assembly, has deep wells of World Cup popularity to draw from; current polls already give him a 10% lead over opposition candidate Lee Hoi-chang. President Kim Dae-jung's ruling Millennium Democratic Party has made overtures to Chung, but the football chief says he will form...