More than a fighting chance
New Straits Times, Malaysia -
He added that even adults can be at high risk for PnD. These groups include persons aged 65 and older, individuals with weak immune systems due to cancer, leukaemia, Hodgkin�s disease or human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), persons with sickle cell disease or without a functioning spleen, individuals who have chronic illnesses such as lung, heart, and kidney disease, diabetes and alcoholism, and residents of chronic or long-term care facilities.
2006-06-19
Column: Drew Atkins, Staff Writer, June 17
Coos Bay World, OR -
The answer is “pain.” Americans don't enjoy sports where the pain potential is low, and the odds of severe soccer injuries are not good. We like race cars transforming into turbo-speed fireballs, slamming against partitions, spraying twisted metal everywhere. We like freakishly gigantic men tackling each other with bone-rattling velocity, hurling each other to the ground by their facemasks, grunting and smack talking. We like pro wrestling, demolition derbies, and the occasional fastball beaning of a batter, sometimes prompting dozens of guys to rush the mound for a brawl. In hockey fistfights and lost teeth are anticipated parts of the show, and for that we tolerate its backpedalling tendencies.
2006-06-18
Fuerzabruta, Roundhouse, London A Midsummer Night's Dream, Swan
Independent, UK -
Alas, David Eldridge's new NT play, Market Boy, is disappointing. Set in Romford market in Maggie Thatcher's 1980s, this charts Britain's boom and bust while following an adolescent's rites of passage: shyly starting work on a shoe stall, learning the patter, getting bullied, laid and furiously shocked at his single mum having a bit of fun. Autobiographically informed but with the underlying structure of a medieval morality play, Market Boy has its amusingly wacky and touching moments, especially in scenes between Danny Worters's fist-clenching Boy (left) and Claire Rushbrook's tender Mum. Really though Rufus Norris's splendidly whirling, stylishly choreographed production can't conceal puerile caricatures and feeble political satire.
2006-06-16
The Best And Worst Hunt
Buckmasters Online -
As we got to our spots, Mike about 20 feet off the ground in a tree stand and me in my ground blind, I could see Mike in the tree with all his orange on. One hour passed and the unfamiliar noises in the woods started to go away and the aura became more regular. It seems that the senses become more in tune to the noises as you sit quietly in the woods. Snow piles dropping from the limbs, squirrels up and down the trees, and of course the small birds and other wildlife that land in the trees and ground directly around you. It's these things that reaffirm that you may actually be blending in with the surroundings.
2006-06-15
Shaq's Top 10 NBA Finals quotes
ESPN -
Shaq is so thoroughly dominant -- rumbling for 40 points, 12 boards and eight assists against the Nets' overmatched front line -- that he even made 12 of 14 free throws, leading to a 23-point rout in the Lakers' eventual sweep. The unexpected success at the line prompts Shaq to uncork a string of barbs at then-Sacramento coach Rick Adelman, who had complained during the Western Conference finals about O'Neal stepping over the line.
2006-06-14
Career-defining final for Nadal
ESPN -
For Federer, the pressure is self-imposed. He has already won the other three Grand Slams -- the Australian Open, Wimbledon and the U.S. Open -- but the French Open will always remain the most difficult because the clay negates his power game. If Federer wins Sunday's final, he not only will hold all four Grand Slam singles titles simultaneously but also will be halfway to a calendar Grand Slam, not accomplished since Rod Laver in 1969.
2006-06-13
Love in the Swamp
St. Petersburg Times, FL -
If another interested male is around, the two bulls will fight, which involves lots of splashing, roaring and unpleasant biting. The winning suitor will swim up to the female and thump his snout on the top of the water a couple of times as if to say, "Hey, sweetheart, want to come up to my place?'' Then Lothario will plop his enormous head on top of her smaller head and hold her under the water.
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