Global Warming

July 28, 2006
In California, Heat Is Blamed for 100 Deaths
By JENNIFER STEINHAUER
FRESNO, Calif., July 27 — A searing heat wave nearly two weeks old is responsible for more than 100 deaths across California, the authorities said Thursday. So overwhelmed is the local coroner’s office here that it has been forced to double-stack bodies.
Most of the deaths have occurred in the landlocked Central Valley, the state’s agricultural spine, where triple-digit temperatures have lately been the norm. The heat has been linked to at least 22 deaths here in Fresno County, whose funeral homes have offered to help with the coroner’s backlog.
“We’re just trying to catch up,” said Joseph Tiger, a deputy coroner in Fresno. “I have been here 10 years, and I have never seen it this bad. Our boss has been here over 20, and he hasn’t seen it this bad either. For the last two weeks it has just been unbearable hot.”
The Governor’s Office of Emergency Services said the heat wave had been confirmed as the cause of death among at least 53 people around the state. Pending autopsies, heat-related causes are presumed in the death of scores of others, said Roni Java, a spokeswoman for the emergency services office.
Many of these suspected heat deaths have been among the elderly, who often live as shut-ins and will not open windows, said Loralee Cervantes, the Fresno County coroner.
The toll of such casualties has no recent precedent in California. According to data provided by the California Department of Health Services, the greatest number of heat-related deaths in the state since 1989 had been 40, in 2000. A department spokeswoman, Patti Roberts, said data prior to 1989 were unavailable.
Among the dead here were a 38-year-old worker found in a field, an unidentified man around 40 who made it to a hospital emergency room where his body temperature was recorded at 109.9 degrees and a 58-year-old man who was found drunk. Statewide, Ms. Java said, the youngest person killed by the heat has been a 20-year-old man from San Diego, and the oldest a 95-year-old man in Imperial County, on the Mexican border.
A doctor and his assistant toiled here on Thursday in the coroner’s office, which recently grew to 50 beds from 25 after getting a bioterrorism grant but has rarely had 25 bodies. On Thursday morning there were 58.
The morgue was converted from an eyeglass factory several years ago and has no air-conditioning in crucial areas. Decomposition has been a problem, Ms. Cervantes said, and bodies have piled up because of the lack of space.
“This has been our biggest challenge,” Ms. Cervantes said in an interview. “It’s frustrating.”
While the Central Valley is used to temperatures crackling in the triple digits at this time of year, the evenings tend to be cooler. But temperatures in recent days have been lingering in the 80’s after sunset, mixed with humidity far higher than this region is accustomed to.
By midday Thursday the mercury had hit 112 in Fresno, though temperatures elsewhere had dropped and weather forecasters were predicting a break in the heat almost everywhere in the state by Friday.
In the meantime, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said, state workers are doing everything possible to prevent additional deaths.
“The summer heat wave continues to be dangerous as California has seen record-breaking, consecutive days of triple-digit temperatures,” Mr. Schwarzenegger said in a statement. “A mobilized force of local workers will continue to knock on doors and make phone calls to protect our vulnerable residents who may be exposed to the relentless heat.”
The record temperatures have also hit farmers hard, with roughly 16,500 cows, 1 percent of the state’s dairy herd, dying of the heat, according to California Dairies, the state’s largest milk cooperative. Further, panting, miserable cows, which lack the benefit of sweat glands, have yielded 10 percent to 20 percent less milk than usual, said trade groups and dairy farmers in the region. California produces more milk than any other state in the country, providing about 12 percent of the American supply.
Six counties have declared states of emergency because of the large number of dead livestock, and the California Department of Food and Agriculture has waived a regulation requiring haulers of dead animals to transport them to rendering plants in eight counties in the Central Valley. The waiver frees the haulers to leave the carcasses in landfills.
“It is just a bad, bad situation,” said Larry Collar, the quality assurance manager for California Dairies. “In 25 years in Southern California, this is the most extreme temperatures we have ever seen and the most extreme length of time we have seen.”
The high temperatures have also caused problems with field crops around the state.
“We have been having trouble mainly in the Central Valley with the walnuts,” said Ann Schmidt-Fogarty, a spokeswoman for the California Farm Bureau. “The intensity of the sun and heat actually burns them inside the shell.”
In addition, she said, the weather has caused delicate fruits like peaches, nectarines and plums to ripen unevenly.
At the Te Velde dairy farm in Bakersfield, about 100 miles south of here, 16 cows have perished in the last 11 days, and 12 more have been sent to slaughter because they could not handle the heat, said Ralph Te Velde, 59, who has run that family farm for three decades.
The rest of his 1,600 cows sought relief under a patch of water misters Thursday morning, but by 9:30 a.m. some were already showing signs of distress, their fat pink tongues dangling to their chins.
One of the herd, her five-minute-old calf being licked by a neighboring cow a few feet away, was being hosed down by Mr. Te Velde’s son. At the end of the lot, dead cows were piled up, their carcasses a twisted black and white mass.
Mr. Te Velde and other dairy farmers have struggled to get rendering companies to come and get dead livestock. “The main challenge is a disposal challenge in the Central Valley,” said Steve Lyle, a spokesman for the Department of Food and Agriculture.
Dino Giacomazzi, a dairy farmer in Hanford, between Fresno and Bakersfield, said he had been watching Yahoo! Weather for days, hoping to see the last of the heat.
“We spend a lot of time and money making sure these cows are comfortable all the time,” Mr. Giacomazzi said. “Because uncomfortable cows don’t make milk.”
Fire Threatens Transmission Lines
SACRAMENTO, July 27 (AP) — A wind-driven wildfire near the Oregon border is threatening the major power transmission lines between California and the Pacific Northwest, though California grid operators said Thursday that they could reroute electricity if the lines went dead.
State and federal air tankers, ground crews and equipment are being diverted from other areas to fight the fire, which is burning among three transmission lines about a mile and a half apart. The fire is paralleling the lines, which together carry about 4,200 megawatts between the Bonneville Power Administration, in Washington, and California.
The fire, caused by lightning, was discovered Tuesday and had grown to more than 400 acres by Thursday.
Carolyn Marshall contributed reporting from San Francisco for this article.

July 16, 2006
Q & A
Keeping Costs Down on Cellphones Abroad
By ROGER COLLIS
We will be in Europe this summer and would like a pay-as-you-go cellphone that will work in England and other countries. Can we buy a SIM card in Britain that will work in our North American handset?
— Helen Hatton, Toronto
The simplest option is to buy a basic cellphone, like a Nokia or Motorola, at one of the many retail outlets in Britain like Carphone Warehouse or Dixons; it should cost less than $75. Service providers like T-Mobile, Virgin Mobile and Vodafone are clamoring for your business with pay-as-you-go options. This should give you automatic roaming in Europe and most parts of the world, although not in the United States or Canada unless you have a tri-band phone that works in the United States system. (You may need to register a British address and have a minimum of £50, or $94 at $1.88 to the pound, on the card.)
Many travelers have found it cheaper to buy a local-network SIM card for their GSM handset. Prepaid SIM cards, which give you a local phone number so you pay local rates, typically cost the equivalent of $25 to $40, and you can easily add credit.
Of course, you’ll need to give your new number to those who need to know, and the card will expire if not used within six to nine months. But you’ll get cheap local calls, and free incoming calls from the United States.
The downside to buying local SIM cards can be coping with the local language, crucial to understanding instructions for adding credit to the card.) A solution is to buy a country-specific or global SIM card with English instructions before you travel, available through sites like SIM4travel.com, 0044.co.uk and gosim.com. You should be able to save up to 80 percent on normal roaming charges by making calls at local rates and receiving most calls free in most countries.
SIM4travel.com sells SIM cards for about $56, and Nokia 1100 phones for $75, and you can buy up to $375 of credit at one time.
You can use your own handset, but it must be “unlocked,” that is, open to all networks. You can unlock your phone from a specific network at www.activatemyphone.com (from $5.95).
Several readers have shared their experience in buying or renting a cellphone. Randal Tietz in Chicago recommends buying a Nokia phone from TracFone “that comes with 300 minutes of local air time for $90.”
“The last time I traveled to England,” he writes, “I bought a Virgin tri-band mobile phone for less than one week of rental. So the next time I travel to Europe, I can get a new SIM card and have a phone to use in the country I will spend the most time in.”
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Matchmaking!!!?

July 9, 2006
Vows
Sherazad Saleem and Mus Jaffery
By STEPHEN HENDERSON
I MADE it clear there wasn't to be any matchmaking. I never wanted my family involved," Mustafa Jaffery said. "I was going to marry on my own. During high school and college, I positioned myself away from my Pakistani identity, and my dating history reflected that."
So hostile was he to meddling that Mr. Jaffery swore never to look at any Pakistani girl suggested to him. But avoiding the romantic schemes of others would prove to be difficult for Mr. Jaffery, who is 30, known as Mus and a manager in the strategy department at American Express in New York.
Unknown to him, one of his aunts was on the case. She believed that her nephew, from a family said to have descended from Baba Farid, a Sufi saint, might interest the family of a young woman named Sherazad Ferial Saleem, whose mother lays claim to being a descendant of Babur, the founder of the Mogul dynasty.
Ms. Saleem, a 2002 graduate of Bryn Mawr, is a daughter of Dr. Zoovia Hamiduddin, an internist, and Muhammad Saleem, an investment banking executive, of Larchmont, N.Y. She was also averse to a set-up. "Guys asked me out, but I never met anyone who made me want to say 'yes,' " said Ms. Saleem, who is 26 and works in Jersey City as a data analyst for Goldman Sachs.
Mr. Jaffery's aunt, Dr. Masuda Malik, a retired general physician in Karachi, Pakistan, baited her trap in early 2003 while in the United States visiting her daughter, who lives in New Rochelle, N.Y., and was about to have a baby.
It fell to Mr. Jaffery's parents, Farzana Jaffery, an employee benefits consultant for Aetna, and Zaheer Jaffery, a civil engineer for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, to be the hosts of the baby shower. The younger Mr. Jaffery came home to West Windsor, N.J., to help with the arrangements.
Among the 60 women at the shower were Ms. Saleem and her mother. Dr. Malik, of course, made the fateful introduction.
Mr. Jaffery recalls discussing with Ms. Saleem the French novelist Michel Houellebecq; she remembers engaging him in a debate about Russian literature. They agree that their immediate rapport made them oblivious to everybody else.
"She was slim, tall and had beautiful broad shoulders; I am a sucker for broad shoulders," Mr. Jaffery said.
"His demeanor was different, less cut-and-dried than many men I'd known," she said. "I could tell Mus was creative, imaginative and open-minded. I was intrigued."
Was the meeting arranged?
With a shrug, Dr. Malik said, "Afterward, I gave Mus an e-mail address, a phone number. I said, 'This is a girl to treat with respect.' "
Dr. Hamiduddin is far less circumspect about her role: "We had to make them feel it was real, that their meeting was destiny," she said. "But it was a total plot!"
Belatedly suspicious of just such machinations, Mr. Jaffery panicked.
"Sherazad made a big impression on me, but I was petrified," he said. "These are dangerous waters. In our culture, a benign gesture can be interpreted as a bold signal."
A month passed before he summoned the nerve to arrange to meet Ms. Saleem at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Things proceeded from there and they began dating — without advertising the fact. They discovered shared passions for kayaking, the music of tabla drums, even chick flicks. Of the two, Ms. Saleem is more of an Islamic scholar (she read the Koran through by age 9); whereas Mr. Jaffery has greater knowledge of Pakistan, having lived in Karachi as a child.
Hoping to avoid outside pressure, they let very few people in on their secret. "It was very cloak and dagger; almost like we were having an affair," Mr. Jaffery said. But when a cousin spotted them together on the subway, the grapevine lit up — "from Westchester to Dubai," Ms. Saleem said.
In December 2005, they were engaged.
On June 30, the couple stood before Al-Haaj Ghazi Y. Khankan, a Muslim cleric from the Islamic Center of Long Island, in the living room of the bride's parents home, as he performed a ceremony known as the nikkah. The bride's father termed it the "Islamic version of a prenuptial agreement," whereby the bridegroom gives the bride a maher, which can be real estate or gold, but in this case was a cash amount in the low six figures. Mr. Jaffery's parents had presented Ms. Saleem with antique jewelry as well as a red and gold wedding costume made by Banto Kazmi, whom Dr. Hamiduddin described as "the Vera Wang of Pakistan."
Once they had signed documents written in Persian by a calligrapher from Srinagar, Kashmir, and Mr. Khankan had signed the civil marriage certificate, the couple excitedly headed off to their party at the Surf Club in New Rochelle. (Wedding receptions, Mr. Jaffery said, are the among the few places where Pakistani boys and girls can freely mingle, unchaperoned.)
For all his previous bluster, Mr. Jaffery was pragmatic about the conspiracy. "You marry a girl, you marry her family," he concluded. "Weddings are strategic alliances."

Beer

July 12, 2006

Beers of The Times

It’s Hot. Drink Your Wheat.

By ERIC ASIMOV

WHEAT beer. It sounds healthy and almost bready, like something you might find in a New Age fantasy.

Imagine the wheat beer arriving as you complete your mud bath and aromatherapy, hypnotic music in the background, something to sip as you slip into your Birkenstocks and float away. Not to harsh the mellow, but aargh!

Regardless of how it sounds, wheat beer has brewski credentials. It is the quintessential summer quencher, just right for Nascar races and baseball games. Now, that is a fantasy worth having — sitting in Yankee Stadium with a glass of cold hefeweizen, the leading south German style of wheat beer, its lively bubbles and tart, brisk flavors ready to quash the steamy heat of any July night. It would go just as well with hot dogs as with the traditional Bavarian veal sausages and pretzel bread.

Instead, ballparks prefer to serve insipid, tasteless beer that might be better dumped into the mud bath than consumed, at inflated prices to boot. Is this world crazy? Now the mellow is truly harshed.

In an effort to ensure sanity in the heat, the tasting panel recently sampled 24 wheat beers. We were looking for American versions of Bavarian-style brews, mostly out of curiosity. American craft brewers have been creative in taking European styles in unexpected directions, and we anticipated more of the same in the wheat beer category.

Leave it to our wily tasting director, Bernard Kirsch, though, to throw in a few German sleepers. I’ll get back to that shortly. Florence Fabricant and I were joined for the tasting by Garrett Oliver, brewmaster of the Brooklyn Brewery, and Fred Dexheimer, wine director of the BLT restaurants in New York.

First things first: How did wheat get into the brew in the first place?

In its purest form, beer is made solely of malted barley, water, yeast and hops. Among grains, barley’s association with brewing comes naturally. Its characteristic hard husk makes it easier for brewers to employ without clogging up their equipment, as happens with a grain like wheat, which has no husk and can gum up the works. Barley’s high starch content breaks down easily into sugars, which are then converted by yeast into alcohol. Wheat, by contrast, with its elastic glutens, is well suited to making bread; unlike barley, which becomes dry and crumbly in the hands of a baker. Perfect division of labor, right? Barley for beer, wheat for bread.

Humans resist this form of natural selection. Brewers have long looked to other grains beyond barley for their beer. Oats are used in stout and rye is used in Eastern Europe to make kvass. Mass-market brewers add rice to lager beers, which stretches out the brew while contributing to a light, subdued — some might say characterless — flavor, or corn, which contributes a sort of sweetness. And then there is wheat.

Given the difficulty that brewers have with wheat, you would think they would leave it for the bakers. But brewers found that the addition of wheat contributed a bracing liveliness to the beer that made it worth the extra trouble. In Germany and Belgium, the two centers of wheat beer production, brewers settled on a proportion of 50 percent to 60 percent wheat, with barley making up the rest.

In Belgium, the wheat beer is often flavored with orange peel and coriander. But in Bavaria, brewers developed a particular kind of ale yeast that imparts a most unusual flavor to the beer: clove, citrus, smoke and, you’ll taste for yourself, banana and bubblegum. As odd as it sounds, it’s tremendously refreshing and goes well with a wide variety of spicy foods. The beer is called hefeweizen; weizen for wheat and hefe for yeast. It is almost always unfiltered, which gives hefeweizen its characteristically cloudy, hazy appearance.

As we expected, the American wheat beers were all over the map, with brewers taking great liberties with the style. This caused no small amount of consternation among the panel, particularly with those beers that styled themselves hefeweizen. Magic Hat Circus Boy, for example, calls itself a hefeweizen, yet it has a floral aroma that is wholly uncharacteristic of the style. Widmer Hefeweizen, which the panel rejected, was another beer that bore little relation to the style.

“You’re trading on the good name of an actual, established style to sell something that’s different,’’ Mr. Oliver said, likening such uses of the term hefeweizen to labeling American white wines as Chablis. “It’s confusing and frustrating.’’

Magic Hat had a second beer in the tasting, Hocus Pocus, which we rated higher for its better balance. Unlike the Circus Boy, it did not call itself a hefeweizen, a good thing since it seemed to be more in a Belgian style.

Our top beer was the Brooklyn Brewery’s Brooklyner Weisse, which seemed dead on in its approximation of the clove, smoke and banana aromas, and brisk, refreshing texture of a hefeweizen. Mr. Oliver didn’t identify it as his own beer, but was unembarrassed by the panel’s unanimous approval.

Among our other favorites, the Flying Dog In-Heat was a fine, lively version of the hefeweizen style, while the Samuel Adams was a little more sedate, unlike the Ramstein, which so overflowed with hefeweizen flavors that it seemed a bit overwrought. We liked the Smuttynose, though it seemed maybe more Belgian than German in style, and we enjoyed both the Butternuts Heinnieweisse, which is sold in cans, and the Harpoon UFO, which both seemed true to the German aromas and flavors.

Some of the beers seemed not to be in very good condition. The panel rejected a Weyerbacher hefeweizen, a Penn Weizen and a Rogue Half-E-Weizen, all of which seemed well past their primes. Mr. Oliver pointed out that wheat beers are among the most difficult to make properly.

“They’re very delicate and they must be insistently fresh,’’ he said. “When you lose that, the beers tend to fall apart.’’

Which brings us to the three authentic German hefeweizens, which Mr. Kirsch slipped into the tasting. One, from Erdinger, did not make the cut, but the other two, from Schneider and Franziskaner, might well have been our top beers of the tasting. It was a tribute to Mr. Dexheimer’s acumen that he picked those two beers as the truest hefeweizens in the tasting.

SIX SIGMA - Apresentado por Bruno Pessoa

Valeu mesmo!

O amigo Bruno Pessoa, apresentou na ultima quinta feira, dia 29/06/06, a palestra (em Inglês) cujo tema foi "SIX SIGMA".
O tema escolhido é muito atual e extremamente importante para a sobrevivência de grandes empresas no atual mercado competitivo e globalizado que vivemos. ( aprenda a respeito de SIX SIGMA http://www.ge.com/en/company/companyinfo/quality/whatis.htm ).







Quem esteve presente, aprendeu bastante e pode debater a respeito do tema com um dos responsáveis pela implantação do modelo SIX SIGMA na Villares, o Bruno Pessoa.(tudo em Inglês)


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Bye Bye Brazil

July 2, 2006
France 1, Brazil 0
France Beats Brazil at Its Own Game
By JERE LONGMAN
FRANKFURT, July 1 — At age 34, Zinédine Zidane has prematurely lost much of his hair but little of his magnificent soccer skill, which was on stirring display Saturday night as France ousted the five-time champion Brazil from the World Cup.
It was Zidane's looping free kick in the 57th minute that forward Thierry Henry volleyed into the net for a 1-0 victory, setting up a semifinal against Portugal on Wednesday.
While Brazil appeared lethargic, almost uninterested — until it was forced into a frantic attempt to level the score — France beat the defending champion Brazilians at their own beautiful game: crisp short passes on the ground, ornamental footwork and an effervescent spirit.
Brazil, which had appeared in the previous three World Cup finals, winning twice, never achieved its usual joyful brand of samba soccer in this tournament. And now it exits having been thoroughly beaten twice by Zidane and France in the past eight years in soccer's global championship tournament.
In 1998, Zidane, widely considered one of soccer's greats, scored two goals in a 3-0 victory over Brazil in the final of the World Cup outside Paris, setting off the largest celebration on the Champs-Élysées since the end of World War II.
He is scheduled to retire after this World Cup, but his going-away party has been postponed for at least one more match. He seems free, unburdened by pressure or expectation, exulting in a fabulous deferment of the end of his career.
On Saturday, Zidane spryly juggled the ball on his thigh. He fired wraparound passes. He dashed vigorously and creatively from one flank to another. And he dribbled intricately around and through the Brazilian midfielders as if they were cones on a practice field.
"Precisely because he's going to retire, he's fully invested in this game," Raymond Domenech, France's coach, said of Zidane. "He doesn't have to calculate anything. Every moment is perhaps his last one."
Meanwhile, Brazil was left exhausted, lacking in urgency and curiously indolent until the final half hour of play. Ronaldinho, considered the world's best player, was pushed from midfield up to forward, but he failed again to become sufficiently involved.
Instead, Ronaldinho disappeared into a smothering French defense that used as many as nine men to silence Brazil, and he was thoroughly outperformed by Zidane as a playmaker.
Ronaldo, overweight and sedentary at forward, did not threaten until near the end, when he began to run with great determination at the French defense. Often, he just stood around. Once, he fell clumsily in the penalty area.
Brazil's outside backs, Cafu and Roberto Carlos, launched one purposeless pass after another. And, in the closing minutes, Roberto Carlos could only manage to walk upfield as his team desperately needed a goal to force overtime.
Afterward, Ronaldo walked disgustedly off the field, not bothering to shake hands with Zidane, until now his teammate at Real Madrid. Midfielder Zé Roberto fell onto his back, his hands covering his face. He seemed shocked in defeat and was no doubt tired from having chased Zidane all game.
The exit of Brazil, considered by many a heavy favorite to win the tournament, allowed France to join Portugal, Italy and Germany in the first all-European semifinals since 1982.
"I wasn't prepared for defeat," said Brazil's coach, Carlos Alberto Parreira. "It never crossed my mind we wouldn't come to the final. It's a very hard moment."
Parreira, who led Brazil to the 1994 World Cup title, said in a bristling way that losing was always the coach's fault. He would not say whether he would continue as coach. He wondered aloud whether Brazil had adequately melded its individual brilliance into a team.
Meanwhile, the victory continued an extraordinary resurgence for France. It had departed in embarrassment in the first round of the 2002 World Cup, without having scored a goal. Many believed the team had aged indelicately after winning the 1998 World Cup and the 2000 European championship.
Before this tournament, Les Bleus, as the French team is known, received harsh criticism from the French news media and fans. Some players even said they no longer wanted to play in Paris.
And when France struggled early in group play, Domenech, 57, was jeered during introductions before a victory over Togo. The lingering tension was apparent Saturday when Zidane refused to speak with reporters at a news conference after the match.
"We needed a great match and we delivered," Zidane was quoted as saying to Reuters immediately after the match. "We knew we would have to be fit physically and we were. We fought closely together for a well-deserved victory. Now we'll try to win a place in the final. We don't want to stop now. This is so beautiful, we want it to carry on."
France has also received criticism from the far-right politician Jean-Marie Le Pen, head of the anti-immigrant National Front. Le Pen, as he has done many times, has accused the team of using too many black players. And he has said the squad was not sufficiently respectful in singing the national anthem.
The World Cup victory in 1998, achieved with a diverse team with backgrounds in the former French colonies, was considered a victory for multiculturalism and a repudiation of Le Pen's position.
That team was widely hailed while winning in its own country. And this one is already being embraced. The victory brought tens of thousands of people and fireworks to the Champs-Élysées.
"The public supports the team," defender Lilian Thuram said earlier in the World Cup. "They don't ask what color the players are."
In the second round, a somnolent French team awakened with an impressive victory over Spain, ignoring the racist monkey chants made by some Spanish fans and the whistling at "La Marseillaise," France's national anthem.
On Saturday night, there were no political or racial tensions, only a soccer match between two of the world's best teams. France struggled early, attempting to play long ball. Then it undertook a Brazilian style of possession, building up confidently through the middle and along the wings.
In the 45th minute, Zidane cut so sharply near midfield that he left a pair of Brazilians, defender Lúcio and midfielder Gilberto Silva, sprawled on the ground.
In the 57th minute, Zidane waltzed around a flat-footed Ronaldo near midfield, flicking the ball over his head and heading it to a teammate. Eventually, France won a free kick and Zidane set up on the left flank, about 30 yards from goal.
His kick kept floating like a hot-air balloon toward the far post, where Henry was left startlingly unmarked. He volleyed the ball without obstruction and France had the only goal it needed.
"They had more patience than our players," Parreira said. "They were not playing hastily."
Of Zidane, he added: "He moved all the time. He made it hard for our players. This was decisive."
Asked to explain the play of his star midfielder, Domenech said: "He is Zidane. You seem surprised. I'm not surprised at all. I know exactly what he's capable of doing."
And so does Brazil