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...These age-defying athletes are all impressive. But they've got nothing on Randy Couture, the mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter who will take on heavyweight Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira Saturday night in the 102nd Ultimate Fighting Championship event. A five-time champion in the UFC, the premier promoter in the fast-growing sport of mixed martial arts, Couture, 46, is an aging man in a sport that can obliterate even young, healthy bones. As such, he amounts to a litmus test for the next wave of young MMA athletes, who have to wonder, how long can we hang around this...
...backstage at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, where his friend and mentor is lying in repose. Dozens of Kennedy relatives mill around, and Kerry greets them all. "What's changed is Teddy's lying in there. There's a moment here where the mission gets larger. And I've got to step up, and we're going to have to do our best to meet the challenge." (See pictures of the mourning of Ted Kennedy...
...Teddy was in favor of a public plan, and Teddy would've fought for a public plan on the floor of the Senate," Kerry bristles. "Teddy would've probably found a way to have a vote, and if he'd lost the vote, he'd have moved on. That's how you legislate. You don't block. You don't stop anybody from expressing their point of view. You've got to move on, and then you live with the vote - I mean, that's what Teddy would do. And if there were absolutely no way of getting it done...
...then there are those who just don't like the idea of vaccinations. Teresa Kendrick, a mother of three in Tuscaloosa, says she's decided against it. "We've never had any flu vaccine, and swine flu doesn't seem to be any more serious than any other flu, so we're taking our chances," she says. "I'll give them fluids and Tylenol and keep their temperature down...
...ve been told, many CIA employees believed this was an accident waiting to happen. They knew from years of experience that it would be the CIA and nobody else in Washington who would pay the price. A CIA officer who left the agency in 2004 wrote to me this week: "I knew the Agency crazies and their contractors would eventually pay legally or politically for torture. Many folks were talking about it. But management did nothing. The right wing nuts did not make us proud, and hid behind Cheney authorities to conduct crimes which added nothing and probably were counter...