Olympic Games

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• Salacious Sunday Hip Hop Hits: El Fudge’s Chronic Irresponsibility

  
  Salacious Sound — Authority: 428
  Chronic Irresponsibility is an album that consists of an odd mix of Blaxsploitation-Soundtrack-esque funk rhythms, airy guitar and piano centric progressions, and big bass scratch/sample beats a la DJ Premier.  The elements are all hip-hop here: great turntablism, smooth flow, and interesting lyricism about personal ...
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• Global Warming Quote of the Day

  
  HolyCoast.com — Authority: 579
  From Jim Treacher : OMG, can you believe Obama changed his mind about going to Copenhagen after all this stuff came out? Its like sprinting to board your ship at the last minute, and its the Titanic. Whos advising this guy anyway? The same guy that told him to go to Copenhagen to get the Olympics for Chicago? ...
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• Liberal turmoil clouds debate on climate bills

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  The Federal Opposition looks set to change leaders, as the emissions trading legislation that sparked the Liberal row comes back before the Senate. The Upper House failed to meet the Governments deadline of passing the scheme by last week, prompting the Governments Senate leader, Chris Evans, to accuse the Opposition ...
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• Rudd plays careful hand at CHOGM

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudds appearance at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is an exercise in double-purpose diplomacy. First, he wants to keep a high profile among his Commonwealth colleagues, meeting all the big players of this 53-nation group: Britains Gordon Brown, Indias Manmohan Singh, South ...
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• Internet Is a Great Equalizer: Small Businesses Can Directly Compete with Huge Corporations

  
  Cyber Flopping! — Authority: 148
  I just finished watching the news and got another extraordinarily severe detail of the state of the US economy.  The September unemployment number (9.8%) had just been released, which translates into more than 15 million folks now out of work.  Not just that, but the reporter also explained that the US had just ...
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• Why Do Pho Restaurants Have Numbers in Their Names?

  
  Chris Abraham — Authority: 144
  Lots of my friends ask why all of my favorite Pho restaurants have numbers in them, like my personal favorite, Pho75, in Court House, Arlington, VA.  Well, here’s some insight from Serious Eats : Oftentimes they’re lucky numbers. “In some Asian cultures, eight is associated with wealth or prosperity. ...
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• The Saturday Profile: China’s Impolitic Artist, Still Waiting to Be Silenced

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 906
  Artist Ai Weiwei in his studio in Beijing.
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• A referee gets mobbed — for being good!

  
  Soccer News Info — Authority: 158
  Around the world referees are forever criticised by fans, players, managers and the media but an Uzbekistan official has managed to buck the trend, receiving an unusually warm welcome after being named Asian Football Confederation (AFC) referee of the year. Fans at Tashkent airport blew horns and trumpets to ...
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• Welcome To B.C. Where Olympic Spirit Is An Enforceable Law

  
  Unambiguously Ambidextrous — Authority: 480
  Amy Goodman, host of the American public radio show Democracy Now , was detained with her producers at the Canadian border and interrogated for more than an hour. The reason, according to her, is that border agents were afraid she was visiting to criticize the 2010 Olympic Games. She was actually visiting Canada ...
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• Coconuts banned on Rio de Janeiro beaches

  
  Gadling — Authority: 703
  Filed under: Food and Drink , South America , Brazil If its your dream to go to Rio de Janeiro, and walk Copacabana Beach while drinking from a coconut, heres a reality check for you: you have to nix the coconut. Starting December 1st, coconuts will be banned from being sold by beach vendors in an effort to ...
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• The Friday Five: Pre-Mature Death Bells For Federer

  
  TennisGrandstand — Authority: 421
  Roger Federer is still the king By Maud Watson Return of the King – It seems like only yesterday a sobbing Australian Open finalist Roger Federer had the critics convinced that his star was fading fast.  But after an amazing summer that saw him complete the career Grand Slam as well as break Pete Sampras’ ...
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• Sport tourism takes centre stage

  
  Travel news from car rentals Page not found — Authority: 438
  Just recently more than 50,000 officials from around the world gathered in London to celebrate 30-years of the World Travel Market. Government officials and the international press were here and they have come out with the same feeling that sports tourism has been born as the catalyst to revive the flagging travel ...
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• Germany under ranking test at Champions Trophy - Daily Times

  
  Beijing 2008 Stadium — Authority: 145
  MELBOURNE: Olympic champions Germany are aiming to protect their top world ranking in the men’s field hockey Champions Trophy, getting underway here on Saturday (tomorrow). The Germans are up against Australia (2), Spain (3), Netherlands (4), South Continue .. That result means Del Potro and Federer both ...
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• Balancing Motherhood and Another Mountain Run

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 906
  Sarah Schleper, a three-time United States Olympian in skiing and the mother of a toddler, is continuing her pursuit of an Olympic medal.
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• Wembley Arena set for 2012 Olympics

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  • Badminton and rhythmic gymnastics to take place at site • Will save on building temporary venue at Greenwich Peninsula The International Olympic Committee revealed today that an agreement had been reached "in principle" for London organisers to avoid the need to build a temporary £42m arena by moving two ...
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• Curling gets cool as Eve Muirhead aims for Winter Olympic gold at Vancouver 2010

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 970
  Teenage skip leads British womens team in search of Olympic gold.
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• Serbs wonder - finally a real team? (Team Profile)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Belgrade, Nov 26 (DPA) Serbia is looking forward to the 2010 World Cup finals in South Africa mixing hope that it finally has a “real team” with fear of another huge disappointment.Serbia qualified directly and surefooted for the tournament, but it did the same four years ago, then as Serbia-Montenegro, only to be ...
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• If You Want To Buy TAG Watch

  
  3stepADS - Free Advertising Blog — Authority: 586
  Are you considering to buy TAG watch?Over the years, Heuer’s reputation for gold-standard precision earned the company the privilege of providing official timing services for a number of world-class competitive sporting events. Those including the Olympic Games, the FIS Ski World Cup, and the FIA Formula 1 World ...
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• Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games Review

  
  Wii Balance Board Games Blog — Authority: 133
  A portion of the Vooks review of Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games: "If you haven’t played many mini-game collections and are looking for a new party-style game, then Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games is a decent choice."
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• On Olympic pin-trading centres and Collectors Corner

  
  Inside the 2010 Olympics — Authority: 112
  Its been a while since Ive written on that Olympic phenomenon of pin-trading. Faithful readers will recall that wed be publishing in print and on this blog Collectors Corner, a piece that periodically reviewed new or interesting collectibles...( read more )
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