As you can see, in the events where medals are determined by competitors rather than judges, the gold medal gap between China and the U.S. is greatly narrowed, and the total medal count is an American runaway. Counting the judged events, China has a commanding lead in golds. Hmmm… Nope, nothing fishy about that!
Posts tagged "quotes"
Aug
14
2008
SIMPSONS voice actors’ salaries bumped up to nearly $400,000 per episode. Woo-hoo!
Aug
14
2008
I am saddened not to be able to attend the Games. The Olympic Games represent something powerful: that people can come together from around the world and do things that no one thought were possible. However, the denial of my visa is a part of a systemic effort by the Chinese government to coerce and threaten athletes who are speaking out on behalf of the innocent people of Darfur.
May
22
2008
The binging (eating mass amounts of food) really isn’t our fault, it’s biology.
Sharyn Alfonsi
May
15
2008
The highest reward for a person’s effort is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
John Ruskin
May
12
2008
The 20th century gave rise to one of the greatest and most distressing paradoxes of human history: that the greatest intolerance and violence of that century were practiced by those who believed that religion caused intolerance and violence.
Allister McGrath
May
12
2008
Yesterday it worked.
Today it is not working.
Windows is like that.
Today it is not working.
Windows is like that.
May
12
2008
Despite what you learned in typing class, stop using two spaces after a period. It’s nothing more than a habit – one worth breaking.
May
12
2008
Boxes|are|for|shoes was created to enlighten people that there is more to this life than we dare to dream.
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