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...leave the 48-cm gold trophy at U.S. tour headquarters in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, where it has been since they staged history's biggest final-day rally to win in 1999. London bookmakers have the U.S. as a 1-to-2 favorite. The Ryder Cup, though, pays little heed to rankings, to the routine par 72 and four rounds. It's a different ball game. In the three-day match-play format, each match is worth a point; the team with the most points wins. The first two mornings at the Belfry will feature fourballs - four...
...streets blaring nationalist messages and songs. But in Tome's eyes, the kamikazes were kids, not political symbols, and she relentlessly preached peace. "She always said, 'No one wins in war,'" recalls Hatsuyo. "To her, these boys were victims." Many of the families visiting Chiran this Aug. 15 heed her message, and express pity and sorrow rather than jingoistic pride. "I came because I wanted to know the truth," says Kazunori Matsuo, 38, who rode from Nagasaki on his motorbike. Another visitor, Kazuo Nakajima, 47, says his late father had hidden his military history. "I learned just yesterday," he says...
...vitally important that New York legislature does not heed the criticism from Big Tobacco and its lackeys. Enacting these smoke-free laws in New York will likely lead the way for similar legislation to be enacted across the country. Smoke-free restaurants and bars would allow tens of thousands more New Yorkers to work in a smoke-free environment, with negligible economic consequences. The only lost profits will be those of Big Tobacco...
...Manufacturers appear to pay little heed to the substance's dangers. After Chinese health officials outlawed a product made by Guangzhou-based Yuzhitang Health Products that was associated with two deaths, the company simply started making a differently named product containing fenfluramine (that product, too, was banned by China last month. The company could not be reached for comment...
...eyed captain, was up in the darkened bridge, sitting cross-legged on a stool to the right of the wheel, making constant and almost imperceptible adjustments to the course of the ship. Navigational instruments?radar, sonar and GPS?glowed faintly on the control panel, but Haji paid them no heed. He has been sailing these waters since his youth; subtle changes in the shape of the coast and the position of the stars are all he needs to know exactly where he is. Just before dawn the Marco Polo reached the eastern coast of Selayar and dropped anchor...