Word: weirdness
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...after they crossed the finish line. The International Association of Athletics Federations - which organizes the World Championships - joined in the consternation. "One week you're Kenyan, a week later you're Qatari, you change your name, and very clearly for financial reasons - this is what we call morally weird," I.A.A.F. general secretary Istvan Gyulai tells TIME. He says there have been around 60 requests for "transfer of allegiance" in the last two years alone. Even some transnationals think enough is enough. Says the formerly Jamaican sprinter Merlene Ottey, who fell out with the Jamaican track federation and ran her first...
...also have a really weird way of working," says Krakoff, lounging on the couch of his loftlike all-white office on Manhattan's West 34th Street. "I never procrastinate. Everything is really fluid, and I'm open to being inspired by anything. If you wait for the right idea, it doesn't get done." For example, while preparing an "inspiration board" covered with gloves--a big trend this fall--Krakoff suddenly had an idea for a scarf print of a drawing of many different styles of gloves, which then morphed into a still-life idea for an ad campaign. "Each...
...President Bush said he would look into "why the cascade was so significant, why it was able to ripple so significantly throughout our system." But finding answers may mean reviewing yet again the lessons learned from four historic power failures going back to the 1960s, looking at the weird rules that govern how power companies invest their money, and confronting the evidence that an antique grid of twigs and twine cannot meet the demands of 21st century consumers, much less protect itself from anyone who might actually set out to bring it down...
...year-old woman with dyslexia, and I was happy to see that all areas of this disorder are being seriously researched. In spite of a lifetime of being considered stupid, weird or worse, I feel fortunate that my problem was noticed early and I was taught to read at home before beginning school. Still, I am just as likely today to walk into a doorjamb as to make it through a doorway successfully. I am, however, an imaginative, practical problem solver as well as ambidextrous. My creativity far outweighs dyslexia's negatives. Let's hope the stigma is lifted...
...putting it all on television. The public has reacted to these soulless exercises with disdainful apathy; Californians tend to be more interested when the state's nutty kernel of political extremists put some hot-button initiative--about race, immigration or taxes, inevitably--on the ballot. Indeed, there is a weird karmic genius to the current electoral gimmick, the movement to recall Governor Gray Davis from office. It has turned politics itself into a ballot issue--with Davis in the dock, representing a system run aground...