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...thing missing along several portions of the route will be spectators, because there's no place to stand on the roadside. Last month, organizers said there would be room for just 1,000 spectators at the start of the Athens Games' signature event and tens of thousands at the finish line. And if you want to watch along the course itself, you'll have to find your own space. This isn't just a matter of construction delays. One facility, for example, was completed well ahead of schedule: the International Broadcasting Center where NBC, the American television network that spent...
...Summer Sonic fest (summersonic.com/top.html), on Aug. 7-8. Held in Tokyo and Osaka simultaneously, the four-year-old event will present the currently red-hot Avril Lavigne, along with the Beastie Boys, Green Day, N.E.R.D. and Sum 41. Finally, the more underground True People's Celebration (www.organicgroove.com) will finish up the summer festival season in early September, with reggae pioneer Jimmy Cliff headlining. Check the websites for ticket and transport details...
...student was not going to attend Harvard because his AI was computed far below what it should have been,” Russell said. “The student was going to finish third in his class, but his school reported it as ‘top 20 percent.’ I was disappointed that the AI was far below what I had computed [when including his actual class rank...
...fever, sore throat, severe fatigue, joint pain, tingling or numbness in the extremities and changes in vision. In late stages, the disease can lead to arthritis, meningitis, facial drooping, numbness in the hands and feet, and neurological disorders that can include short-term memory loss, inability to concentrate or finish sentences, disorientation and confusion...
...paraphrase Walt Whitman, a U.S. election contains multitudes. The long, drawn-out campaign - the primary season, the spring offensives, the summer punctuated by the scripted drama of the party conventions, the mad dash from Labor Day to the finish line, the debates, the breathless and sometimes inaccurate projections of state-by-state results by TV anchors - add up to a political carnival in which, like a Brueghel painting, there are enough details to satisfy any taste. All elections matter. The U.S. presidential election, because it chooses the leader of the nation whose policies have so much impact on the world...