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...getting ready to run a marathon. They're asking for donations, creating special support-me-while-I'm-training groups and posting status updates about returning from a 20-mile run at an hour when most sane people are lazily rolling out of bed. The nonprofit group Running USA reports that there were 467,000 marathon finishers last year, up nearly 10% from 2008 - and the highest number of finishers to date. And we can thank Facebook groupthink for helping pick up the pace. (See 25 websites you can't live without...
...badminton, table tennis and kung fu - games you won't find front and center at nearby Niketown. Li Ning consciously decided not to shed its Chinese identity as it expands overseas, hoping instead to ride the growing influence of Chinese culture. Jay Li, the general manager of Li Ning USA, predicts that as Chinese soft power expands, China's tastes "will become part of the fabric of mainstream culture." Says Li: "When the tide starts to turn, we want to be one of the brands to bring a new, modern China to the rest of the world...
...America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), the industry trade group, has agreed to sign on to a new, 50-state health care reform implementation effort, provisionally called Enroll America, which is being organized by Ron Pollack of the pro-reform group Families USA. "We are participating in it," says AHIP spokesman Robert Zirkelbach. "The goal is to get everyone covered." (Watch TIME's video "The Story of an Uninsured Woman...
...While conservative groups and Republican politicians will surely continue advertising and organizing against the health-reform law, Families USA also plans to launch its own public education campaign, funded through foundation donations, over the coming months. It will include a "health-reform road show" across the country, which will seek to drum up local press coverage of the new law's benefits, says Pollack. The organization is also planning to release state-by-state studies of the number of beneficiaries from key parts of the law, like the new protections for patients with pre-existing conditions. (See "Multimedia: Health Care...
...Sunday evening the richest, most powerful country in the world, the USA, finally entered the 20th century. Yes, not the 21st century, but the 20th," read an article published Monday on the popular French news website Rue89.com. The site also posted a copy of TIME's cover from Nov. 24, 2008, showing Obama as a contemporary Franklin D. Roosevelt, below which it placed a cartoon of Obama on the phone to French President Nicolas Sarkozy, saying, "Hi, Nicolas, how's your health?" The Dutch daily De Volkskrant noted that the change was a long time coming: "Where health care...