The process for awarding host city honors came under intense scrutiny after Salt Lake City had beenawarded the right to host the 2002 Olympic Games. Soon after the host city had been announced, it wasdiscovered that the organizers had engaged in an elaborate bribery scheme to     31   with IOC(International Olympic Committee) officials. Gifts and other financial considerations were given to thosewho would evaluate and vote on Salt Lake City’s bid. These gifts included medical treatment for relatives,a college scholarship for one member’s son and a land deal in Utah. Even IOC president Juan AntonioSamaranch received two rifles    32   $2,000. Samaranch defended the gift as inconsequential since, aspresident, he was a non-voting member. 

     The subsequent investigation has uncovered inconsistencies in the bids for every Olympics (bothSummer and Winter) since 1988.   33   , the gifts received by IOC members from the JapaneseOrganizing Committee for Nagano’s bid for the 1998 Winter Olympics were described by the investigationcommittee as “astronomical.” Although nothing strictly illegal had been done, the IOC feared thatcorporate sponsors would lose faith in the integrity of the process and that the Olympic brand would betarnished to such an extent   34   advertisers would begin to pull their support. The investigation resulted in the expulsion of 10 IOC members and the sanctioning of another 10.New terms and age limits were established for IOC membership, and 15 former Olympic athletes wereadded to the committee. Stricter rules for future bids were imposed, with   35      imposed on the valueof gifts IOC members could accept from bid cities.

    Men and women often have different ideas of what’s important—and at what point “important” topics should be 

raised. A woman told me, with lingering astonishment, of a conversation with her boyfriend. Knowing he had seen his 

friend Oliver, she asked, “What’s new with Oliver?” He replied, “Nothing.” 41 , later in the conversation it came 

out that Oliver and his girlfriend had decided to get married. “That’s nothing?” the woman gasped in 42 . 

<br>    For men, “Nothing” may be a ritual 43 at the start of a conversation. A college woman missed her brother but 

rarely called him because she found it difficult to get talk going. A 44 conversation began with her asking, “What’s 

up with you?” and his replying, “Nothing.” Hearing his “Nothing” as meaning “There is nothing personal I want to talk 

about,” she supplied talk by filling him in on her news and 45 hung up in frustration. But when she thought back, she remembered that later in the conversation he had mumbled, “Christie and I got into another fight.” This came so late 

and so low that she didn’t pick up on it. And he was probably equally frustrated that she didn’t. 

People think turkeys are very dumb because they don’t know enough to come in out of the rain. In fact, they’ve been known to hold their mouths open during rainstorms and drown! But that’s 43 true of the domesticated turkey. The wild turkey is one of nature’s most cunning creatures. Wild turkeys are very wary, 44 mothers with chicks. They are rarely seen by humans. They hide in the bushes where their natural coloring makes them just about 45 their natural enemies. Unlike the domesticated turkey, the wild bird is a powerful flyer. When it is frightened, the wild turkey spreads its five-to six-foot wings and flies away at up to 50 miles per hour. Even on the ground the bird is 46 and can run as fast as 25 miles per hour.

    The Pathways Programs offer clear paths to Federal internships for students from high school through post-graduate school and to careers for recent graduates, and provide meaningful training and career development opportunities for individuals who are at the beginning of their Federal service. As a student or recent graduate, you can begin your career in the Federal government by choosing the path that best describes you and where you are in your academics: 

 1. Internship Program: This program is for current students enrolled in a wide variety of educational institutions from high school to graduate level, with paid opportunities to work in agencies and explore Federal careers while still in school. 

 2. Recent Graduates Program: This program is for individuals who have recently graduated from qualifying educational institutions or programs and seek a dynamic, career development program with training and mentorship. To be eligible, applicants must apply within two years of degree or certificate completion (except for veterans precluded from doing so due to their military service obligation, who will have up to six years to apply). 

 3. Presidential Management Fellows Program: For more than three decades, the PMF Program has been the Federal government’s premier leadership development program for advanced degree candidates. This program is now for individuals who have received a qualifying advanced degree within the preceding two years. For additional information on the Pathways Programs overall, please visit http://www.opm.gov/HiringReform/Pathways/.

        China is famous for its tea. Tea drinking was an important part of Chinese life, but 37 in the world did peopledrink tea with more ceremony than in Japan. There, a strict ritual was set down in the fifteenth century by the first greattea master, Shuko. This tea ceremony is still performed today. Guests must wash their hands and faces and removetheir shoes before 38 the tearoom through a low doorway that forces them to stoop and appear humble. As theguests sit cross-legged on mats, the host places a spoonful of powdered tea into a special bowl, adds boiling water, andthen stirs it with a bamboo whisk. 39 in early tea ceremonies, everyone drank from the same bowl, it later becamethe practice for the host to serve the tea in individual bowls. The guests sip the tea slowly and talk until they havefinished drinking. Then they are expected to throw back their heads and take the final sip with a loud sound to showhow good the tea is. As the ceremony comes to an end, the guests 40 the empty serving bowl for its beauty. Thehost washes the cups and the ceremony ends.