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...This year's CES runs Jan. 8-11 and the keynote speaker is Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. The conference will include 2,700 exhibitors flaunting their wares across 1.7 million square feet of floor space at the Las Vegas Convention Center and Sands Expo and Convention Center in the Venetian Casino and Hotel. The sponsoring Consumer Electronics Association, a trade group, expects 130,000 people to attend, including retailers, manufacturers and members of the press. (See TIME's Best Inventions...
...forgiveness than the softer surfaces of clay and grass, and may explain why Nadal has never managed to make the final of a Grand Slam hard-court event. Ask his trainer, Rafael Maymo, what parts of Nadal's body are under strain when he plays, and he answers: "Shoulder, feet, legs and back. Oh wait, that's every part." Sampras is even more direct: [Nadal] puts so much effort into each point that eventually something will break...
Doctors gauged the sound produced by the patient's club, along with five other titanium clubs, and compared it with that of older-generation steel clubs. A measuring device was positioned 5.6 feet (1.7 m) away from a golf pro at an outdoor tee - approximating the distance between a ball and a golfer's closest ear. Doctors found that all six titanium clubs exceeded safe limits, while only two of the six steel drivers posed a hazard...
...driven by the governor’s emergency budget cuts in October.“If you look at who was using [the center], it mostly wasn’t seniors. It was our least profitable center, and there’s another similar one less than 2,000 feet away,” Bailey said. “You really have to study utilization and need and make decisions based on that.”As for Simmons and Decker’s suggestion of withholding funds, Bailey said that “the solution to diminishing funding...
...case of Hizballah during Israel's 2006 offensive in Lebanon, Hamas has all along believed it will "win" the battle of Gaza simply by remaining intact and on its feet. Although Israel has no intention of taking control of Gaza and getting stuck there, the purpose of its ground invasion is to make Hamas commanders believe that even their goal of surviving and remaining in control of Gaza after Operation Cast Lead is slipping beyond their grasp, in the hope that this will make the organization more likely to accept Israel's truce terms. The armed "negotiation" over Gaza...