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　　American athlete-turned-anthropologist hopes the Olympics will foster greaterunderstanding between China and the rest of the world
　　
　　Susan Brownell, an anthropologyprofessor at the University ofMissouri, St. Louis, guesses shemight have been the only non-Chinese person crying in front of theirTV when Beijing lost its bid for the 2000Summer Olympics to Sydney by two voteson September 23, 1993.