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...Watersports World Championships in Melbourne, which ended on April 1, China completely dominated the diving competition, with its male athletes taking nine out of 10 golds on offer and bagging several silvers and bronzes too. Their one failure came in the sport's blue-ribbon event: the 10-meter board competition. China's formidable sports machine knows that it only has itself to blame for that loss. But it was willing to lose a gold to enforce a rigid discipline on its prized athletes...
...country's best-known diver, Tian Liang, a two-time Olympic gold medalist on the 10-meter board and until last week the world champion, wasn't even in Australia. He has been at loggerheads with China's sports administrators ever since he returned in triumph from the Athens Olympic Games. Conspicuously absent from the roster of divers headed for Melbourne, he lost his place on the national team because of what control-obsessed sports bureaucrats called his excessive "commercial activities...
...teams managed an individual winner against a deep field, but there were plenty of strong performances at Rice’s Victor Lopez Bayou Classic.Sophomore Elissa Reidy led the way on the women’s side, placing second in the long jump with a leap of 5.36 meters. Sophomore Shannon Flahive finished fifth in the event with a 5.31-meter jump. Classmate Becky Christensen placed third in the high jump after clearing the bar at 1.75 meters. The Crimson’s success on the field also included a fifth-place finish in the pole vault from junior Clara...
...crisis, and to call it not just a hotel but also a "universe." Yet that is precisely what Argentine fashion magnate Alan Faena did when he bought an abandoned warehouse in Buenos Aires' Puerto Madero district, convinced Philippe Starck to design the interior and, in 2005, opened the 10-meter-high doors of the Faena Hotel and Universe, tel: (54-11) 4010 9000. Impressively, he makes good on his out-of-the-world claim with lush red velvet interiors, spacious rooms (from around $330), an award-winning cabaret, a wonderfully indulgent spa, two terrific restaurants and a welcoming bar. Almost...
...Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) officer was dispatched to take a report of a stolen green and brown canvas bag that contained various hand tools valued at $500, an Ampro meter valued at $300, and a Fluke thermostat thermometer valued...