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...mind and body. Olympic coaches and athletes now exploit a wide range of mechanical, video and computer devices designed to coax peak performance out of human bodies. Complex cables propelled by pulleys drag runners faster than they thought they could sprint. A new machine from France lets speedsters run virtual-reality races against the best in the world. Innovative video software allows swimmers and divers to break down their performances frame by precious frame. Like Blake, many athletes have been "sleeping high [in altitude-simulation tents] and training low," and everybody has been trying to figure out how to cope...
...Boston's Fleet Center after John Kerry's acceptance speech when George W. Bush's campaign set about popping them. The President's top aides had been BlackBerrying little darts to one another all through the address, and now they were on a conference call, comparing notes across a virtual war room. Bush confidante Karen Hughes in Texas said Kerry had come across as "lecturing," pointing his finger like a schoolmaster. In his Washington living room, Bush's chief political adviser, Karl Rove, said Kerry's position on Iraq was a "puzzlement," a contradiction of his own votes. From suburban...
...game was called Doom, and the janitor was among the first of us normal people to get a look at the electronic frontier of the coming century. With Doom, Carmack and his colleagues had created a three-dimensional virtual world so powerful, compelling and disturbing that it would change the real world around it. This week id will launch Doom 3, four years in the making. It is, if anything, a little too real...
...INCLUDE_VIRTUAL /time/europe/s_tga/include/tga_tout.htm] One of the coolest drinks in Athens this summer is the ouzo frappé, created by New York chef Jim Botsacos. Pour a shot of ouzo and a few drops of coffee liqueur (Botsacos uses Tia Maria) into a shaker. Add half a teaspoon of instant coffee, some whole milk (or cream) and ice. Shake vigorously, strain into a martini glass, top with sprinkles of coffee and brown sugar, and enjoy. Botsacos, a Greek-Italian-American who will be in Athens for the Games to serve up Olympic meals at the Hotel Grande Bretagne on Constitution Square...
Some women, to be sure, would be unhappy no matter what their husbands' occupations and would turn in their despair to drink, to drugs, to affairs. But probably no other career makes such relentless demands on wives and families as politics. Witness Pat Nixon in virtual exile at San Clemente. "We are worried about Pat," an associate of the Nixons confides. "She has not been in touch with any of her close friends. It's not like her"... [The political wife] becomes public property, an extension of the public man, subject to unending scrutiny, judgments, accolades and criticisms...