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...Sports like BMX are the future of the Games, to the chagrin of some traditionalists. The Olympics are trying to get younger and hipper. Over the past decade, the Winter Olympics have cashed in on the action-sports craze captivating the young demo. With interest sparked by ESPN's surprisingly popular X-Games, snowboarders and freestyle skiers have snatched medals and, more important, ratings points. How mainstream have action sports become? Snowboarder Shaun "The Flying Tomato" White, poster boy of the '06 Torino Games, is now a pitchman for American Express...
...Since the 1980s, when schools eliminated gymnastics teams due to high liability costs, more sideline routines have been incorporating high-flying acrobatics. Girls start cheerleading at younger ages than ever, and parents have proven willing to pay thousands of dollars for their daughters to participate on elite touring squads that compete year-round. The pressure can consume coaches, teams and families alike. In 2003, when Tiffani Bright broke her arm in two places during a stunt that went awry, the 15-year-old Oregonian and her parents' immediate concern was how to get her back cheering as quickly as possible...
...Games, a Chinese women's pair brought home a surprise gold. Two years later, at the Australian Open, Yan and Zheng claimed the country's first Grand Slam title. Then came Wimbledon, when the diminutive Zheng made it to the semi-finals as a wildcard before succumbing to the younger Williams sister. Zheng, a native of Sichuan province, which was rocked by the May earthquake, donated her Wimbledon prize money to the reconstruction effort...
...must be the only government that designates the best potters or woodblock printers as Living National Treasures, or, to use the formal name, Bearers of Important Intangible Cultural Assets. The appellation currently applies only to artisans whose crafts have not strayed from the confines of the past. But with younger Japanese now introducing the world to updated versions of ancient culture, Japanese bureaucrats might do well to expand the definition. The new "Made in Japan" deserves...
...Zilwa sold the wrecked property to the prominent Bandaranaike family. From then on, it was always their house, a political house - where Prime Minister S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike was shot on the veranda in 1959, and where his wife and successor, Sirimavo, would raise a son and two daughters, the younger of which, Chandrika, became the country's first elected female President...