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...York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg had his media moment Wednesday, and the newly minted independent said all the coy and clever things that potential Presidential candidates are supposed to say to keep their options open and their profiles high...
...Recent efforts to boost squash's public profile have had mixed results. The sport failed to make it onto the Olympic program for the 2012 games in London. (Its advocates hope to make it in 2016.) And though clever technology has made the sport more TV-friendly, with glass courts and white balls making it much easier to follow the action, broadcasts remain hard to find. Still, at its grass roots, the picture is looking brighter. Some 180 years since pupils at England's posh Harrow school invented the game, children are again getting involved. A scheme introduced two years...
...Emma Watson Age: 17 Spiritual Mother: Emma Thompson Screen Cred: As honor student Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter series, the British actress believably delivers goody-goody lines like, "I'm going to bed before either of you comes up with another clever idea to get us killed, or worse, expelled!" New projects: The Potter series has Watson booked till 2010. The fifth movie, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, is due in July. Good girl factoid: During the filming of Prisoner of Azkaban, Watson put director Alfonso Cuaron's Hair in pigtails...
...Human geopolitics aside, what many wanted to know was just how common this kind of gang war is among species. Does such comparatively organized thrust and counterthrust occur routinely in nature, or were these unusually clever critters...
Chambers Bay is not your typical golf course--condos don't line the fairways, carts are forbidden--but in other ways it exemplifies many of the trends in golf architecture: green maintenance practices, natural designs that follow the land and clever reuse of land. This stunning $20 million public course was an underproductive mine...