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...There are few rules for BMX, which can give it a roller-derby feel. "People can't T-bone you," says Day. That means a rider isn't allowed to use his wheel as a weapon, crashing into an opponent at a right angle. That doesn't mean no nudging. "We don't intentionally try to bust people," says Day. It just sort of happens. Regularly...
...troops), the U.S. should contemplate withdrawing from the 2014 Winter Games, to be held in the Russian city of Sochi, next to the violated Georgia's frontier. There is a precedent for this. I was part of the Carter Administration when we brandished the Olympic torch as a symbolic weapon in 1980, pulling out of the Summer Games in Moscow after the Russian invasion of Afghanistan. The Soviet Union had planned a propaganda show reminiscent of Hitler's 1936 Olympics in Berlin. America's boycott delivered a body blow to President Leonid Brezhnev and his communist system and prevented Moscow...
...poetic about the mouthfeel of a pinot or the flavors of mown grass and flint in a 2007 sauvignon. But an electronic "tongue" recently unveiled by scientists at Barcelona's Institute for Microelectronics is capable of identifying different wines and may be used as a new weapon in the battle against wine fraud. In a study published last week in the Royal Society of Chemistry's journal the Analyst, Cecilia Jonquera-Jiménez and her colleagues announced that by using microsensors cued to chemical ions, their device, or "e-tongue," can distinguish among grapes and vintages...
...most urgent business was in Beijing, where Bush met with Hu Jintao, his Chinese counterpart, and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin - both veto-wielding members of the U.N. Security Council. With world capitals swirling with rumors that Israel might bomb Iran to prevent it from getting a nuclear weapon, Bush intended to press China and Russia for stiffer economic sanctions against Tehran, which has consistently refused to suspend its uranium-enrichment program. To Bush, time is critical; not only is his term running out, but the world's ability to keep Iran from nukes through diplomacy is also fading...
...business. Bush will meet with both Hu Jintao, his Chinese counterpart, and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin - both veto wielding members of the U.N. Security Council. With world capitals now awash in rumors about what Israel might do militarily to prevent the government in Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, Bush will press China and Russia for stiffer economic sanctions against Tehran, which is resolutely refusing to suspend its uranium enrichment program. Tehran let another informal deadline pass last weekend, and reiterated it had no intention of stopping its enrichment, which it again said is for peaceful purposes only...