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Pacquiao's camp says the boxer refused the blood testing because he is superstitious and doesn't want to give blood so close to fight time. He was blood-tested a couple of days before his fight with Erik Morales, and lost. "It made me weak," says Pacquiao, who is suing Mayweather for sullying his reputation. There is speculation in some boxing gyms that Mayweather knew about Pacquiao's aversion to pre-fight blood testing and used it as a tactic to duck him. But Mayweather insists that he simply wants to reform the sport's drug policies...
...foreign country and providing material support to al-Qaeda. The 25-year-old Afghan-born U.S. permanent resident--he attended high school in New York City--traveled to Pakistan in 2008, intending to fight alongside the Taliban in Afghanistan. Instead he ended up at a Pakistani al-Qaeda training camp for several months, then moved to Colorado, where he plotted the attack. On Sept. 10, 2009, he arrived in New York in a rented car carrying bombmaking materials but retreated when he realized he was under surveillance. This "investigation is ongoing," says Holder. "We will not rest until everyone responsible...
Roughly 150 city and state government officials and Harvard graduate students spent their Saturday at the first “Government 2.0” camp to be hosted in Cambridge at Harvard Kennedy School learning to apply current social media tools in local government...
Unlike more traditional conferences, the Government 2.0 camp allowed participants to focus on topics that interest them and share their ideas by leading their own sessions, according to the event’s co-organizer Sarah E. Bourne, who is the Mass. government’s chief technology strategist...
...Jesse L. Weiss, a social media coordinator who led one of the sessions at the camp, said that though the event provided an opportunity to network with peers, the unconference is not necessarily a better alternative to more structured traditional conferences...