Until he came out of skating hibernation this season, Evgeni Plushenko had settled himself in for a long winter’s nap - three years long, in fact. But when Mother Russia needed him back for the Olympics, the defending champion dutifully rubbed his eyes, dusted off his skates and emerged from retirement with his jumping skills still intact.
“I am nervous today bec…
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Six-times world champion Magdalena Neuner of Germany landed her first Olympic gold medal after coming from behind to win the women's 10km pursuit at Whistler Olympic Park on Tuesday.
Trailing Slovakia's Anastazia Kuzmina by two seconds after Sunday's 7.5 km sprint, the 23-year-old Neuner took control after a flawless display in the first t…
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Am I the only one to notice the coincidence that the Tea Party Convention met in Nashville, which is also the title of a 1975 Robert Altman movie about (among other things) an anti-establishment presidential candidate? Hal Phillip Walker, the standard-bearer of the Replacement Party, would have felt at home last weekend in Nashville.
Walker's populist platform included forbidding lawyers f…
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In the first midterm election of the year, with the U.S. Senate seat once occupied by President Barack Obama up for grabs, voters sent a moderate five-term congressman from a wealthy suburb to face off against a 33-year-old state Treasurer who used to play basketball with the president.
Mark Kirk, the Republican congressman, won his primary by nearly 40 percentage points, according…
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You know how everyone slows down on the freeway to look at a car wreck? The equivalent happened for Conan O'Brien's last appearance as host of "The Tonight Show."
After weeks of controversy over NBC's efforts to return Jay Leno to the late-night schedule and O'Brien's decision to leave rather than get pushed back to a post-midnight starting time, 10.3 million people turned out la…
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Apple unveiled their mobile computing tablet on January 27 at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco.
Many tech sites provided live updates from the event on their blogs and some even broadcasted the event live to the web via their iPhone. The quality was somewhat lacking in these broadcasts and it was often difficult to see clear images of the presentation…
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Runners who eschew shoes may be less likely to do serious injury to their feet, because they hold their feet differently, Daniel Lieberman of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts and colleagues found.
Writing in the journal Nature, they said runners who wear shoes tend to hit the ground with their heels first, whereas barefoot runners put the balls of the…
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Added by Gerard Bean on January 27, 2010 at 5:35pm —
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Getting aid to Haiti right away to save lives is the first goal of the fund-raising initiative headed by George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, the two former U.S. presidents say.
In a pre-recorded interview broadcast Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union," Bush and Clinton said the new fund created by President Barack Obama also seeks to ensure that money keeps coming in after the news media mo…
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Google has unveiled plans today to allow Google Docs to store any type of files, and revealed a new tool from Memeo to enable users to access, migrate, and synchronize files between their desktop and Google Docs. These announcements signify a broader strategy by Google to help business customers bridge the gap between the desktop and the cloud.
Google has been aggressively vying…
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Romano Lemm began his career as a hockey player with the Kloten Flyers of the National League A, for which he had already played in his youth. After the attackers had been reported in the 2000-01 season, his professional debut in the National League B with HC Thurgau, Lemm was the first time in the playoffs of the 2001-02 season for the Kloten Flyers on the ice. After eight years with the Flyers in the summer of 2008, Lemm signed a contract with the Ligarivalen HC Lugano, with whom he in the pla…
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Some days ago I made my mind to conduct a profound research on the Weekday Market in downtown Eugene. It is a good example of conducting business. That's why I picked up this topic for my
case study in university. I think this social network will help me with my
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- Do you know that at viva you will be expected to defend your work?
- Will you be able to state the main achievements of your
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The Dissertation viva is a necessary part of the assessment for all UK Dissertation modules. The viva is part of the assessment for the module, and the final mark for the module is a r…
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Thanks to
Eugene Weekly today for encouraging people to come to the
Weekday Market:
We wrote about Eugene’s Weekday Market at the Tango Center as it was opening back in July, but the new indoor marketplace is not generating enough foot traffic to make it grow and thrive. Come on, people, get on down to 194 W. Broadway and do some serious browsing and shopping. Hours are 10 am to 4 pm…
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The Weekday Market's
Grand Opening has been moved to
August 18th.
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Video from Donnna Fox's story on The Weekday Market in The Tango Center
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