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...overwrought Norman May commentary. Right up to early adulthood, each Games fired imaginings absurdly beyond my reach. So I settled for sports writing, which I did exclusively for 11 years. It was during that time, interviewing hundreds of athletes and observing in many of them the same traits - tunnel vision, self-absorption, extreme determination - that I realized how far from purity sport had traveled. Most disturbing were the attitudes of some coaches. One, voice thick with contempt, told me I was "pathetic" for investigating steroid use by athletes under his care, that all steroids do is "make you more...
...fighters. Moving Again MIDDLE EAST Israel reopened a border crossing between Egypt and Gaza after having stranded thousands of Palestinians in the desert for three weeks. The Israelis closed the crossing on July 18 because of intelligence indicating that one of the Palestinian militant groups in Rafah intended to tunnel beneath it. About 20 tunnels, used to smuggle weapons between Rafah and Egypt, have been uncovered this year. One Tiny Step SAUDI ARABIA Government officials in Riyadh announced the country's first-ever nationwide elections, to choose half the members of 178 municipal councils, in three stages between November...
...before going inside. Years of studying the spiders, beetles, aquatic snails and other invertebrates that shun the sunlit world have led Clarke into many of Tasmania's darkest corners, often by very uncomfortable routes. So for a caver who thinks nothing of slithering on his belly along an underground tunnel just wide enough to fit his body, with only his head above water - "we call it roof sniffing," he says - the entrance he's plunging into is like a portico...
...domestic audience, the Bush administration's hand-over of sovereign authority in Baghdad on June 28 was intended to mark a light at the end of the Iraq tunnel - a crucial step toward making the problems in Iraq mostly the problems of Iraqis. But for U.S. troops in the country and their families back home, the worrying news has hardly skipped a beat. In the 16 days since U.S. administrator J. Paul Bremer handed over the keys to Iraqi interim prime minister Iyad Allawi, some 35 U.S. troops have been killed in Iraq. The number of insurgent attacks continue...
...expelled two security guards at Iran's mission to the United Nations last week for activities "inconsistent with their official duties," a euphemism for spying. The State Department says the pair were caught videotaping New York City landmarks and sensitive infrastructure, including a key subway tunnel. And the event may not be an isolated one. Senior federal law-enforcement sources tell TIME it's just the latest in a spate of incidents of suspected "pre-operational surveillance" by people thought to have links to Middle Eastern extremist groups...