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...Over on the jumping hill is a physical wonder from Anchorage named Alan Alborn (nicknamed, of course, Airborn). Alborn, 21, is 5 ft. 11 in. and 130 lbs., as strong as steel, and he's been jumping since he was 9. His fear of flying kept him from early greatness, but he has finally broken that barrier. With a "frog concept" technique that has him squatting low on the inrun and then exploding high at takeoff, he can now soar more than 200 m. With the home crowd pumping him up-a big factor for jumpers-he could bring home...
...Games. The athletic prowess revered by ancient Athenians is equally important to modern Mormons. Steve Young, the Hall-of-Fame-bound NFL quarterback and a distant relation of Brigham Young, was, for the duration of his career, the quintessence of Mormon manhood?an earthly model for aspiring gods. No wonder that Utah, in survey after survey, has ranked first in the nation in longevity and last in the prevalence of certain diseases...
...plans these days offer a Web site where workers can juggle assets 24-7-365 (except of course for blackouts). Three-year diversification rights? Bush's biggest nod to government intervention, and a nice-sounding idea, even if it's not exactly in the free-market handbook. Wonder if anyone will take the companies...
...that wasn't going to excuse him from tending to the fault line that is slowly creeping into Bush's approval ratings - Americans are beginning to turn their attention to the economy, to their retirements, to the newspaper stories about Enron, and beginning to wonder if Bush should do the same. How much was Bush going to try to allay fears on the purely domestic fronts, in an address whose primary purpose was to revivify them, in the name of vigilance, on the national- and homeland-security ones...
...potential for social and political unrest will be high, as an estimated 10 million peasants leave their land to search for new work in the cities. Even the executives and heads of government oohing and aahing at the fireworks in Shanghai at October's Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum wonder to what extent China will play by the rules or find clever bureaucratic ways to keep goods and services out, as Japan and Korea often have done...