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...sport began to increase when the country hosted the 1982 soccer World Cup and then rose dramatically in the run up to and aftermath of the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona. Sports clubs began to multiply, and the state created dozens of centers where thousands of elite athletes can train at the government's expense. "This has enabled a professionalization of sports unthinkable two decades ago," says Moscoso, "and encouraged Spaniards to see sports positively - fathers want their sons to be soccer players...
...computers: if they could be infected with the virus of good works, the world could be transformed. (Put simply: if every pastor in the world taught basic water hygiene, it could significantly cut rates of dysentery, a major global killer.) Scores of short-term activists, armed with Saddleback-crafted training, would go into a foreign country, locate its most promising churches and introduce them to the best practices in areas from health care to good leadership. Those churches would train other churches until the country was saturated. Warren saw this occurring in every country in the world...
...date, Stein has put around 30 of her household staff through the program. They work in her home (and practice on Stein's lucky friends) while being trained for up to nine months. But upon graduation, they find work at resorts on the island, stay on at Jari Menari, or work overseas (some have been hired away to work in destinations as diverse as Bermuda and Italy). A few of the best join Stein's traveling entourage, helping her train staff at five-star resorts around the world...
...managed to carry out any attacks in the West in the last few years. It is also a fact that it carried out more than 50 suicide bombings in Pakistan in 2007. Al-Qaeda is taking full advantage of the weakness of Pakistan's new government to recruit, train and arm more jihadis. This will boost its chances of hitting targets in the U.S. or Europe. Western nations must pressure and help the Pakistani government to crack down on al-Qaeda and the Taliban, its identical twin. Iftikhar Qureshi, SYDNEY
...like to tell you about what I saw under that train, about the image burned into my mind. I'd like to tell you I saw the pleading stare of a dying man; how, in an end-game of adrenaline and pain, his arms twitched and his eyes made clear that his desire for death had been betrayed by his body's instinct for survival. But to tell you I saw this would not be journalistically accurate, although true in the sense that I have seen this image repeatedly in my dreams. All I saw under the driver's carriage...