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GUARDIAN Sat, 14 Jan 2012 17:21:20 GMT
He still scores goals, Paul Scholes, and from Manchester United's point of view it is a good thing someone does. United went joint top of the Premier League with this win, though until the Wayne Rooney-Danny Welbeck partnership spluttered into life 15 minutes from the end they sorely lacked a cutting edge.
The Cup heroics against Manchester City now over, it was easy to forget that the home side were playing to avoid a third successive league defeat, though all too easy to recall how Blackburn managed to overcome them on New Year's Eve. Had Bolton showed the same amount of fight and finishing prowess they might have taken something from the game, for despite the gloss that Michael Carrick's third goal gave the final scoreline, this was another laboured United performance, not one to cause much lost sleep at City.
Titles are often won by grinding out results, it is true, though seldom against teams as lifeless and lacking in confidence as Bolton. United began as if they were.......
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BOSTON Sun, 15 Jan 2012 04:00:00 GMT
From street gang to college, thanks to basketball As a young teen in Chelsea, Orlando Echevarria weighed nearly 300 pounds and had little time for school. He had trouble controlling his temper, joined a gang, was arrested, drank alcohol, and smoked weed. Basketball was his salvation. He kept working, sweating off the pounds, and finally focused on his education, and a future. Echevarria earned all-region honors at the court at Bunker Hill Community College, and now as a 22-year-old, 6-foot-5, 222-pound senior at Keene State, he will earn his degree.
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GUARDIAN Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:04:21 GMT
People who've been informed of the dangers of meat, particularly the cheap processed variety, but who continue to wolf it down should be held accountable
There have been times during my years of vegetarianism when I've wondered if I may indeed grow out of it. I've wondered if there might come a day when I'll put aside my childish aversion to the thought of dead stuff travelling through my intestines, like a corpse on a raft ride.
However, it could never happen, and not because I'm so enlightened, sensitive or any of the other euphemisms for "whining hippie" usually dumped on vegetarians. My conversion to flesh-eating couldn't happen because, frankly, I'm not stupid enough. As in, I can read.
Analysis of more than 6,000 pancreatic cancer cases published in the British Journal of Cancer says that eating just 50g of processed meat a day (one sausage or a couple of slices of bacon) raises the likelihood of pancreatic cancer by a fifth. 100g a day (the equivalent of a medium burger)..
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FASTCOMPANY Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:41:00 EST
Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day.
Shaadi.com Launches "Angry Brides" Facebook Game. Indian matchmaking giant Shaadi.com (#39 on Fast Company's list of Most Innovative Companies of 2011) has launched a Facebook game to tackle dowry, a thorny matrimonial issue in India. In the game, "Angry Brides," players play a many-armed bride who can hurl shoes, veggies, even knives, at dowry seeking targets. --NS
--Updated 10:00 a.m. EST
Delhi High Court Issues Summons To Facebook, Google. A Delhi High Court has issued summons to Google, Facebook, and other Internet companies in an ongoing battle in India over user content on websites. The issue swirls around religiously offensive and other "objectionable" content on the websites, which the companies are being asked to take down. The companies have been asked to appear in court on March 13 and face criminal charges for allegedly hosting inappropriate content. --NS
--Updated 8:30 a.m. EST
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WORLDPRESSNETWORK 10 Jan 2011
By cartoonist Leon Kuhn whose work can also be seen on his own website http://www.leonkuhn.org.uk where postcards of some of his cartoons can be ordered. See Leon Kuhn's page on "SpideredNews | Politics" at http://www.spiderednews.com/LeonKuhn.htm
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