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...recent afternoon at the Shanghai Tianma Circuit race-car track, the 1,000-strong crowd was treated to the sight of one of the competitors - still dressed in his driver's jumpsuit - walking slowly past the officials' stand, one arm held aloft with the middle finger of his hand extended. "My only regret," he later wrote on his blog, "is that I couldn't show both fingers at the same time because I happened to be having a phone conversation...
...globe - is worried that instead of being looked after by professional caretakers, Inti Wara Yassi's animals are cared for by young backpackers, mainly from the U.S. and Europe, who have no prior experience or training. The reserves have become a hot spot on the South American backpacking circuit, offering any animal lover the prospect of being put in charge of a 200-lb. jaguar (including taking it for daily walks on a leash) within 72 hours of arrival. Goodall says it would have been her dream to work there when she was young, but she has some reservations about...
...horseback) and its khoomei, or throat singing. In characteristically paranoid fashion, the Soviets regarded khoomei as subversive, and spent 50 years attempting to suppress it, but this ancient folk music proved considerably more resilient than the U.S.S.R. and thrives today - a favorite on the world-music festival circuit and on the CD players of fashionable, Eastern spas...
...event, which draws crews from across the collegiate rowing circuit and features both men’s and women’s races, comes just one week after the Head of the Charles Regatta and offered the Black and White’s lightweight squad a second opportunity to compete in an event focused solely on intercollegiate rowers...
...Bell, one of the authors and the manager of the imaging and analysis facility at the Center for Nanoscale Systems, referencing the discovery’s electrical application. “If you can control the direction of the nanowires, in theory you can build any sort of circuit you want...