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Rebel Rebel; It's a long way from Floyd Landis' Mennonite roots to the starting line as a favorite in this year's Tour de France. To get there, he had to go through California
That friendship was but a memory when Landis signed with Phonak after the 2004 season. [Lance Armstrong] felt betrayed. During the 2005 Tour, he referred to Landis in four-letter scatological terms. Landis responded with scathing off-the-record gibes at his former friend and teammate. As the race went on, however, Armstrong became stronger with each passing day. Landis, meanwhile, turned from witty to surly as his performance suffered. An early contender to finish among the top three, Landis would struggle to stay in the top 10. Landis describes the cycling world as \"more than just a job. There are feelings involved.\" But Landis and Armstrong channel those feelings differently. Both men are control freaks. Both live inside their heads. But Armstrong was an impersonal force during the Tour, a sadomasochistic hero inflicting mental anguish on others while subjecting himself to the horrendous physical suffering required to win. Landis is the lone wolf, a deeply competitive individual more interested in winning than in beating a specific individual. By focusing his rage on Armstrong last year, he played to the Texan's strengths. Armstrong wanted to win the Tour de France, but Landis just wanted to beat the sole remaining authority figure in his life. When Landis began slipping behind Armstrong, he lost heart. With more than two weeks of racing to go (the Tour has 21 stages and two rest days, 23 days in all), Landis was beaten. no caption; PHOTOGRAPHER: ILLUSTRATION BY JOE MORSE; SPEED RACER [Floyd] Landis competing in the Tour de Georgia.; PHOTOGRAPHER: PHOTOGRAPH BY DOUG PENSINGER/GETTY IMAGES; SPEED RACER Floyd Landis competing in the Tour de Georgia, at center in the Phonak jersey chats with friend and rival Lance Armstrong during the race.; PHOTOGRAPHER: PHOTOGRAPH BY DOUG PENSINGER/GETTY IMAGES; SPEED RACER Floyd Landis competing in the Tour de Georgia, which he celebrates winning. Landis, in the Phonak jersey.; PHOTOGRAPHER: ERIK S. LESSER/EPA; SPEED RACER Floyd Landis competing in the Tour de Georgia, which he celebrates winning. Landis, at center in the Phonak jersey.; PHOTOGRAPHER: ERIK S. LESSER/EPA; THE PROUD: Floyd's mother, [Arlene Landis], second from left, cheers for her son at the Tour de Georgia.; PHOTOGRAPHER: PHOTOGRAPH BY DOUG PENSINGER/GETTY IMAGES
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We're rediscovering Columbus through DNA samples
The investigation is being led by Dr. Jose Antonio Lorente, a former instructor at the FBI academy whose work has been instrumental in identifying victims of Spanish Civil War atrocities. Saturday -- when Lorente is scheduled to present his findings -- marks the 500th anniversary of Columbus' death, adding a ceremonial aspect to the inquiry. Lorente exhumed Columbus' remains in 2003 to take DNA samples of the explorer and then compare them to those of his brother Diego and his illegitimate son, Fernando, to establish a common genetic map. The next step was gathering saliva samples, looking for the matching mitochondrial evidence that will pinpoint Columbus' true ancestry. Columbus' body was later moved to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, then Cuba, then back to Spain, to Seville. The Dominican Republic claims that Columbus' body never left that island nation, and it has built a great lighthouse tomb to house his remains. Lorente's DNA samples are expected to prove where they truly reside, though even then, both the Dominican Republic and Spain may be right: Columbus' bones could have been divided into two boxes by some sentimental Dominican caretaker, ensuring that at least part of the explorer would never leave the city that he founded, governed and named for his father.
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Rediscovering Columbus
The investigation is being led by Dr. Jose Antonio Lorente, a former instructor at the FBI academy whose work has been instrumental in identifying victims of Spanish Civil War atrocities. Saturday -- when Lorente is scheduled to present his findings -- marks the 500th anniversary of Columbus' death, adding a ceremonial aspect to the inquiry. Lorente exhumed Columbus' remains in 2003 to take DNA samples of the explorer and then compare them to those of his brother Diego and his illegitimate son, Fernando, to establish a common genetic map. The next step was gathering saliva samples, looking for the matching mitochondrial evidence that will pinpoint Columbus' true ancestry. Columbus' body was later moved to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, then Cuba, then back to Spain, to Seville. The Dominican Republic claims that Columbus' body never left that island nation, and it has built a great lighthouse tomb to house his remains. Lorente's DNA samples are expected to prove where they truly reside, though even then, both the Dominican Republic and Spain may be right: Columbus' bones could have been divided into two boxes by some sentimental Dominican caretaker, ensuring that at least part of the explorer would never leave the city that he founded, governed and named for his father.
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Bittersweet survival
[Jennifer Niven], seamless chronicler of the foibles of the ill- fated 1913 Karluk voyage in The Ice Master, has found another tale of bravery and human folly in Ada Blackjack. The book is a sequel of sorts, with adventurer Fred Maurer of the Karluk's 1913-1914 Canadian Arctic Expedition making a return appearance. As the story opens, Maurer, along with three other men and the 23-year-old Inuit divorcee Ada Blackjack, is part of an ambitious attempt to colonize remote Wrangel Island. Two hundred miles northeast of Siberia, Wrangel was where Maurer and his Karluk shipmates eked out a living for six brutal Arctic months before being rescued. As the books winds to its conclusion, Niven artfully guides the reader away from feeling emotional outrage over her heroine's plight. That would be the easy choice, and one taken all too often by writers unable to connect with a character's emotional core. But that turns heroes into victims. Niven cares too much for Ada to do that. Rather, she guides us carefully to Ada's public redemption. It is a moment bittersweet and pure - one that will stay with the reader long after the book's conclusion.
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The murder of King Tut : the plot to kill the child king : a nonfiction thriller
James Patterson and Martin Dugard dig through stacks of evidence--X-rays, Carter's files dealing with the discovery of a long-lost crypt, forensic clues, and stories told through the ages--to arrive at their own account of King Tut's life and death.
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FARMERS AT ARMS
[...] BOER WAR * 1899-1902 The war in South Africa was over. [...] just three days would pass until their next encounter: De Wet spoke with a lisp, which might have prevented him becoming such a leader of men were it not for his furious temper and profound ability to preach fire and brimstone about the cause of Afrikaner independence.
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