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...expected to attract over 30 adult teams to a tournament held June 30 and July 1-up from just over 20 last year. But North Americans are not the only ones interested: many European countries have national sides, and fans, too (interest rose after the Doha matches were broadcast on the Eurosport satellite and cable network). There are Brazilian, Sudanese, Chinese, Iranian and Nepalese teams. A professional league has emerged in South Korea. In Japan, more than 50 teams compete in a national championship (up from the original six in 1989). And earlier this month, the Sepak Takraw Swiss Open...
...wife of presidential candidate John Edwards, spoke movingly about her cancer, saying she accepted the TIME 100 honor "only as a representative of all the men and women who are facing diagnoses like mine, and who continue to fight." NBC News anchor Brian Williams spoke of his heroes of broadcast journalism, Walter Cronkite and Morley Safer. Amr Khaled, the televangelist from Egypt, spoke passionately about young Islamic men and women who want peaceful co-existence with the rest of the world, and asked us to reach out our hands to them. Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson spoke of how astronomer Carl...
...Corporate advertisers have begun to sense the allure of the alternative - Goodnight Electric launched its second album kitted out in Adidas sportswear from from head to toe - and so have radio stations. Several stations now have regular indie shows, and some, like Prambors FM, even broadcast live sessions. Acong, also known as Sir Dandy, recently performed on the program with his band Teenage Death Star. "We couldn't believe they asked us," confesses the musician who doubles as a painter and stage designer. "This is a format that didn't exist a few years ago because few were willing...
...Whenever an experiment crowded an engineering exercise, he'd jettison the experiment. When a prime-time broadcast was scheduled for shortly before the crew was to execute a tricky rendezvous, he scrubbed the TV show. "No TV until after the rendezvous," he pronounced. The ground objected but Schirra held firm. "TV will be delayed without any further discussion...
...which they choose to express their art may be uncomfortable for some to hear,” he said of rappers, “but our job is not to silence or censor that expression.” And yet that is exactly what he asked the recording and broadcast industries to do last week...