Word: arsenal
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...hardworking, or champagne flash. This was, indeed, a beautiful freedom ? until this month. I had adopted two European clubs as my own, watched their games every weekend, wasted work hours reading blogs about them, emotionally invested myself in their travails. But now my two beloved teams, Barcelona and Arsenal, must play each other in the final of the uefa Champions League in Paris this week. What glory! What pain! This is the sporting equivalent of those thought experiments about desert-island cannibalism. Which of my loves will I be forced to eat? I have, over the years, constructed a theory...
Nike also scooped up such world-class stars as Brazilians Ronaldinho and Ronaldo, British sensation Wayne Rooney and American Landon Donovan to wear the company's boots. It paid marquee European clubs--Manchester United and Arsenal in England, Juventus in Italy and FC Barcelona in Spain--to wear the Swoosh on their kits...
...that 4 times on the crossbar no way," writes Raymond from the Hague, Netherlands, on one board), organize pickup games and rant against the most severe problem facing the sport: racism. Members can blog, upload their own soccer video or view thousands of other clips, from the latest Arsenal highlights to Nikola from Bulgaria juggling the ball--in slow motion, no less--in his bedroom. "Some Tricks I Make!" reads the title...
...nuclear weaponized Iran destabilizes the region, prompts a regional arms race, and wastes the scarce resources in the region. And taking account of U.S. nuclear arsenal and its policy of ensuring a strategic edge for Israel, an Iranian bomb will accord Iran no security dividends. There are also some Islamic and developmental reasons why Iran as an Islamic and developing state must not develop and use weapons of mass destruction...
...scant attention to the antinuclear protesters who often appear at the perimeter of the top-secret patch of desert 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas. The 1,350-sq.-mi. site in the Nellis Range has absorbed hundreds of underground blasts as the U.S. has fine-tuned its nuclear arsenal. For Moore, 54, a cigar-chomping veteran of hundreds of such tests, nuclear deterrence and superpower peace depend on the results. "The minute we stop testing, we're in trouble," he says. "I'm not just saying this because it's my livelihood. Something is being learned every time there...