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CRICKET Numbers Game Next year's world cup in South Africa faced disruption from the African National Congress (ANC) Youth League, after the country's United Cricket Board (UCB) said it would abandon quotas for the selection of black players in national and senior provincial cricket teams. Previously, the inclusion of four black players on each team was mandatory, but early this month the ucb said that changes within the sport had made such quotas redundant-an idea supported by several of South Africa's black players. But the anc Youth League called the move "sad and shameful" and vowed...
...crave is a hot meal, you can abandon the stove altogether. Hot Pack Self-Heating Meals are used by emergency personnel and hard-core campers. After the sealed meal is placed in a pouch, water (of any temperature) is added, and in 12 minutes, through the magic of magnesium and oxygen, the food is piping hot. The meals, in such flavors as Chicken and Vegetable Casserole and Rotini Bolognese, come with a napkin. --By Desa Philadelphia
...boat girl, Ee Kan, and boat boy, Ai Kum, seem to know what they're doing, poling furiously as the gnarled fingers of overhanging branches grasp and claw at us. Ee Kan wails as we scud past an exposed rock, and I prepare to abandon ship. As we slide over the last of the rapids into blessed calm water, I am relieved to remember that a serenade from these silk-swathed gondoliers was part of the deal. Both are Dai tribespeople, but they're singing their hearts out in Mandarin. "This is a famous Chinese song about...
...leading critics to warn that if the league couldn't even shore up attendance on the eve of the World Cup, it might not get a boost after it. Korea's league continues to hemorrhage cash, and sports officials worry that the nation's insta-football fans will soon abandon the game, especially because many of Korea's heroes will likely to be playing overseas afterward. "Football is fun during the World Cup, but baseball is what I'll watch when it's all over," says Yoon Choo, a Seoul stock analyst...
When Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Camille Pissarro, Pierre Renoir and a handful of other artists - most of them French - began to abandon the formal rules that had dominated painting until the mid-19th century, they brought into the art world a new spontaneity, luminosity and richness. Their revolutionary way of looking at landscapes, gardens and scenes of leisure had particular resonance in a distant land that, a century earlier, embraced some revolutionary French ideas about politics. "I hated conventional art," said Mary Cassatt, a leading American artist of the 19th and 20th centuries. "When I joined the Impressionists, I began...