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...head coach, Nat Goodhartz, is also one of the head coaches of the U.S. women’s national team. Pensler, who hails from Chicago, Ill., picked up fencing at age 10 after watching her younger brother try it out. She soon found out the heavy toll her new sport took on her body. “The first day after I did it for the very first time I couldn’t walk the next day because my legs were so sore,” she said. In a sport like fencing, which requires athletes...
...save, only to get up and play a handful more shots before winning the rally.In another point, after being lobbed at the net, Clayton backpedaled like a cornerback and then sprinted for the bounce, again saving the point.Unfortunately for both Clayton and Nguyen, all these long rallies took a toll, as Clayton ran out of steam in the second and third sets, relinquishing a 3-0 second set lead to fall, 7-6, and then 6-1 in the third.“That guy had just run Chris out of legs, which is hard...
...tens of thousands of mines scattered across the windblasted ocher hills northeast of Beijing. It is here--more than in the textile factories of the south where Western activists complain of sweatshop conditions--that Chinese pay in blood for their country's economic success. The official death toll fell some 20% last year, but as with many government statistics in China, the figures aren't sparking celebrations, even among safety officials. In fact, many industry observers believe that accidents are heavily underreported. Robin Munro, a human-rights activist at the Hong Kong--based China Labor Bulletin, working from an unofficial...
...toll highlights more than the awful conditions in an industry that the China Labor Bulletin calls "blood coal." It also exposes one of the most critical issues faced by Beijing: the inability of the central government to get local authorities to follow orders. The official Chinese media repeatedly feature stories on how local administrators ignore orders from Beijing on everything from controlling public spending and cracking down on corruption to protecting the environment. "Mining is the perfect case study of central-government relations with local government in China," says Arthur Kroeber, editor of the China Economic Quarterly. "The clash...
Still, I wanted to see how Caf 150's founding chef, Nate Keller, managed to serve more than 400 purely local meals a day. Most chefs simply place orders with suppliers. Good cooks understand that quality and origin are related because of the toll extracted by transportation, but in the end, if Emeril Lagasse wants to serve wild salmon one night, he can just order it from Alaska. Keller, who recently became the chef at another Google restaurant, couldn't do that. Although just a freckly 30-year-old, he had to plan his menus the way preindustrial cooks...