of suicides, including the high-profile death of top general Zhang Yang in November when he came under investigation, fear that a suspect may escape punishment by suicide has become grounds for detention. Human Rights Watch researcher Maya Wang says the new detention system "appears to be a legal, but no less abusive, twin of shuanggui". "It provides no fair trial protections, not even the basic ones that exist under China's criminal procedures." She says a "veneer of legal legitimacy" has been added to the system "to counter criticisms of its anti-corruption drive at home as well as abroad". Foreign governments should express concern about the detention system when engaging with Chinese officials from the new National Supervision Commission, she says.

"Foreign police forces should continue to exercise the sameThe debate over who is the greatest summer Olympian in U.S. history is relegated to a familiar list of names: Michael Phelps, Mark Spitz, Jim Thorpe, Carl Lewis, Jesse Owens, perhaps Jackie Joyner-Kersee. Then there's Ray Ewry, an all-but-forgotten Olympic great with a remarkable story.

Ewry won his 10th gold medal in 10 tries by leaping, bounding and hopping to such heights and lengths that spectators were awed — but also dumbfounded — that a human being could perform such feats. In fact, the French dubbed him "L'Homme Grenouille," the "Frog Man."

But before Ewry ever cleared that bar in Paris in 1900 and then again at three subsequent games, he accomplished something truly remarkable: He learned to walk again.

Beating The Odds

Ewry contracted polio as an 8-year-old in 1881. Thomas