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...With the two countries mired in a state of low-grade tension, it's not surprising that their efforts to be (and be seen as) the region's heavyweight have entered a new and higher frontier. Both countries are focusing on increasingly visible and expensive manned missions and unmanned lunar landings within the next two decades. Space exploration is one area of national endeavor where developing China, the third nation to put a man in orbit around Earth, is not scrambling to catch up with its wealthier, more technologically advanced rival. Make no mistake, says Joan Johnson-Freese, the chair...
...much testosterone proved to be a combustible package, with infighting, drunken frolics, doors bashed in and one competitor urinating on another's bed. The payoff? Most episodes ended with a vicious fight to eliminate a contestant. The ratings spiked for Spike, and the Griffin-Bonnar light-heavyweight showdown, the live finale of the series, saw 2.6 million late-night viewers tune in, handily beating the peak rating of HBO's boxing events that season. Griffin won the fight--and the contract--in a disputed decision but, spurred by the excitement, White and the Fertittas gave Bonnar a contract as well...
...Hugh was," says the show's creator David Shore, who played Laurie's audition tape, sent from a sandy, Namibian film shoot, for Singer. "Bryan said, 'That's what we want, a terrific American actor.'" Laurie could hardly be more British, having attended the University of Cambridge alongside cinema heavyweight Emma Thompson and preferring for the time being to keep his wife and three school-age children in London...
After finishing the 2004-05 season with a 22-5 record, junior captain heavyweight wrestler Bode Ogunwole is accustomed to a leadership role on the Harvard wrestling team. But at the Junior World Freestyle Championships last week, Ogunwole found himself in a new position—leading not the Crimson, but the United States...
...exhausting tournament for a heavyweight,” USA Wrestling Freestyle Developmental Coach Dave Bennett said. “He didn’t have much time between his matches. He sucked it up when...