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A Billion To One

By Seth Wickersham

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Snakes, blood and sex. What can we say? We're trying to make it happen for the guy. Egging him on, even. Come on, you're a linebacker for the Eagles. You've started in the Super Bowl. You've taken on Jerome Bettis. Why so scared? "I don't know," says Dhani Jones, squirming in his seat. "That doesn't look too good." It's a cloudy day in late March and Jones is at the MeiYou Café in Yangshuo, China. A few nights earlier, he dined at a restaurant where the cuisine consisted of beetles, silkworm ...

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