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Dubbed the Clown Prince of track and field, U.S. sprinter JON DRUMMOND threw a world-class tantrum in Paris last Sunday. He lay in his lane, refusing to budge, after he was disqualified from the 100-meter world-championship quarter-finals for a false start. Some hope officials will revisit their reliance on gate sensors. "If you so much as pass gas, you get a false start," says runner Kim Collins...
Growing up in the cool, thin air of the Kenyan highlands helped turn Stephen Cherono into a world-class runner. He honed his skills jumping over rocks and streams in his native land, following the tracks of his older brother, Abraham, and a phalanx of other Kenyan champions. At last week's World Championships in Athletics in Paris, he not only beat his brother in a thrilling 3,000-m steeplechase; he also scored a gold medal for his home country: Qatar. Qatar? That's right. Last month the lithe 20-year-old middle-distance man swapped his Kenyan passport...
...neighborhood or the destruction of a landmark. It exists in the wondrous possibility that your super is in the mafia, the cast of “Sex and the City” is shooting on your corner and the next guy you meet at a party is a world-class concert pianist...
...With Kai Tak gone, many Hong Kong residents are understandably proud of its replacement, Chek Lap Kok (its drab proper name is the Hong Kong International Airport). It is undoubtedly a well-designed, efficient, world-class facility. Inside it is everything Kai Tak wasn't?spacious, airy and, with an inventive use of natural light, a little too bright for some when the morning sun catches those check-in desks. But it's also like so many international airports nowadays: somewhat soulless and homogenized. You could be in Schipol or Singapore. One reason Kai Tak is still held in such...
...billion. And New York has 8 million residents to share the pain, compared with Berlin's 3.4 million. What makes it harder for Berliners to bear is that they are accustomed to the high life. The city has three opera houses, five symphony orchestras and three world-class universities, all paid for by the Berlin government; it has 3,000 more police officers than Hamburg, a region of comparable size, and 30% more civil servants. Some of this has to go. "The average Berliner has to accept less culture, moderate cuts in education and a drawing down of the police...