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...evening, it was the audience who was lifting their hands in applause for the orchestra’s outstanding performance of Beethoven’s “Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67” and Holst’s “The Planets.” The evening began with the familiar sound of Beethoven’s “Symphony No. 5,” which first premiered in Vienna’s Theater an der Wien in 1808—the very same year that the HRO’s first incarnation...
...golfers who gathered in Las Vegas in October for the North American One-Armed Golfer Association championships will tell you they're used to the stares. But keep looking, and you'll find some of the most inspiring play on the planet. Golf is frustrating enough with two arms. "Having one arm is difficult for balance, hard for timing and hard for getting the clubhead in the right spot at impact," says Mike Altman, head pro at Stallion Mountain Country Club in Las Vegas, which hosted the one-armed players' tournament. "And these guys do it for 18 holes...
...before the fires had even begun to die down. While environmental scientists are careful not to blame the droughts or heat waves of any one season on climate change, the overwhelming majority of climate models point to more of these extreme conditions in the already dry Southwest as the planet warms. A study led by researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, Calif., and published in Science last year found that as temperatures increased in the West, which is now 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit (almost 1 degree Celsius) warmer than it was in 1987, so did the length...
...turns out that Iraq is the scene of the largest-growing refugee population on the planet. The war in Iraq is already a contentious issue (to put it lightly), and the refugee crisis adds an additional blow. The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) estimates that a little over four million persons have been forced to flee their homes as a result of the Iraq war and the continuing instability there. About 2.2 million of those refugees have left home only to resettle elsewhere in Iraq, while the other half of the refugee population has left the country entirely. Iran, Egypt...
...That growing interest, and the skyrocketing revenues it generates, is rapidly making Planet Rugby a smaller place, as players are lured across borders and oceans to internationalize the sport as never before. As with soccer, England remains the prime destination of globe-trotting stars: The French team beaten by England in the semifinal included the mainstay of London pro club Wasps, Raphael Ibanez, as well as hirsute lock-forward Sébastien Chabal of Sale. And scores of players from Britain and Ireland play in the French league, where they'll soon welcome among them South African full-back Percy...