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...Britain is awash with precious metal. By the time Iain Percy and Andrew Simpson had grabbed the country's fourth sailing gold of the games on Aug. 21, British athletes - track star Christine Ohuruogu, the only member of the team to win standing up, among them - had bagged 39 medals, including 17 golds - Britain's best haul in a century. Only the far larger countries of China, with 46 gold medals, and the U.S., with 28, have done better in Beijing...
...offenders who go overseas and off the radar, and target children where they are highly vulnerable," says Zoe Hilton, policy advisor at London-based National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. She's calling for governments to work more closely with one another to investigate and track sex offenders. But for Gadd, changes to the law are unlikely to make a difference, as he will be under a magnifying glass no matter where he lives. For the children of Britain, the notoriety of the former Gary Glitter may be the most sound protection...
...withdrawal of all U.S. combat forces from the country. But Bush Administration officials, having been burned repeatedly since launching the invasion for brandishing overly optimistic predictions, now seem allergic to setting such precise deadlines. They instead prefer to label them "aspirational time horizons." Given its track record at predicting the course of events in Iraq since March 18, 2003, that's probably wise...
...aims to have a dealership in 47 Russian cities with populations of more than 300,000. One of the biggest corporate-investment programs, by Italy's Enel - which has spent about $6 billion on an effort to become a player in Russia's electricity-generation industry - also remains on track, according to company officials. They say the firm will invest a further $3 billion on revamping and building new power plants in Russia...
...national polls average below 50%. But his enormous and enthusiastic audiences are evidence that many people are intrigued, if not deeply moved. "Yes, we can!" turns out to be a powerful trademark at a time when 3 out of 4 Americans believe the country is on the wrong track. Many Democrats placed their political bets on anger in recent years: anger at the war, anger over the disputed election in 2000, anger at Bush Administration policies. Obama doubled down on optimism, beginning with his careermaking speech at the 2004 Democratic Convention: "Hope in the face of difficulty, hope...