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Disgraced Chambers has Bolt in his sights

Controversial British sprinter Dwain Chambers has set his sights on a world championships showdown against Usain Bolt in Berlin later this summer. Chambers tested positive for the anabolic steroid Tetrahydrogestrinone (THG) in 2003 as part of the BALCO scandal in the United States, but has re-launched his track and field career after serving a two-year ban. By winning the European 60 meters indoor title earlier this year in the second fastest time in history, Chambers showed he is in prime form before heading for a warm weather training camp in California

Hong Kong hotel guests remain in quarantine

The mood at Hong Kong’s Metropark Hotel was subdued Thursday — but only because most of the guests were in their rooms nursing hangovers from a night of partying the evening before. And with good reason

Outbreak bad luck for one Hong Kong business

In the world of business — where book titles like "Only the Paranoid Survive" thrive — successful executives hope for the best but plan for the worst. But no amount of planning could have prevented the bad luck that befell the Metropark hotel group last week

When Fixing Government, Beware of the Brainiacs

Rotten economy? Not if you’re in the business of radically overhauling American government.

Avoid ‘confined spaces’ such as planes, Biden says

Vice President Joe Biden said Thursday morning he has advised his family to avoid "confined places" such as aircraft, subways and classrooms because of the swine flu risk. Biden made the remarks on NBC’s “Today Show,” after he was asked what he would tell a family member about traveling to Mexico, where the first cases of the virus — technically known as 2009 H1N1 — were detected. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, is advising people to avoid nonessential travel to Mexico, where the Mexican government suspects 159 deaths have resulted from the infection, most of them in or around Mexico City

Why American Idol Keeps Soaring

Theoretically, American Idol should not exist. It’s a broad-based mainstream hit when series like that are no longer supposed to be.

How the Strait of Malacca Purged Its Pirate Problem

For centuries, the Strait of Malacca has been one of the great thoroughfares of global commerce. In the old days of wood and sail, the 500-mile ribbon of water, which connects the Indian and Pacific oceans between Malaysia and the Indonesian island of Sumatra, carried pricey spices from the islands of the Indies to the eager markets of the West

‘Silent’ heart attacks more common than thought, study says

Although many people think of a heart attack as a painful, sometimes fatal event, there are some heart attacks that go entirely unnoticed. Undiagnosed, or “silent,” heart attacks affect nearly 200,000 people in the United States annually

Civil Liberties Advocates Dismayed at Obama’s Recent Moves

After eight years in the political wilderness, civil libertarians didn’t have to wait long for President Barack Obama to make them feel at home again. Within just one full day in office, the new President issued a blistering array of orders reversing the policies of George W.

Why Obama Needs to Reveal Even More on Torture

So far, so good: The Administration was absolutely right to declassify the Department of Justice-CIA interrogation memos. The argument that the letters compromise national security does not hold water. As noted in the memos, the interrogations techniques are taken from the military’s escape and evasion training manuals, known as SERE — which in turn were taken from Chinese abusive interrogations used on our troops during the Korean War.