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...leave the crease for the next 10 years of his career. Wintner’s move to netminder proved the right one: he earned a position on Canada’s junior national hockey team, where he played for two years.In a country where hockey is the most popular sport, Wintner had the opportunity to play in front of large, noisy and enthusiastic crowds. He played for a community-owned team in a small town in northern Saskatchewan, where, Wintner said, “everyone showed up to the games. It was pretty incredible to be 18, 19 years...
...reasoning should be “fair and thoroughly explained.” This policy comes from VoteGopher’s mission to be an “information hub” where voters can find balanced information, Ruben said. Bloggers from Wonkette and Instapundit.com, two popular 2004 election blogs, said that VoteGopher may be able to carve out its own niche in the world of political blogs. “I think that a lot of times, students look at things in sort of a fresh way and can be sort of immune to the Washington convention...
...Europeans brought with them rats, cats, and pigs, which swarmed the island and devoured dodo eggs until the bird disappeared from Mauritius.A few managed to escape the island, including two which mysteriously landed in London.In 1638, Sir Hamon L’Estrange wrote about one of the curiosity displays popular at the time, with “a strange looking fowle,” as recounted in Pinto-Correia’s book. These dodos on display disappeared, leaving some to assume they had died in captivity.Many, including Berry, believe one of the birds surfaced—stuffed?...
...Governments will be desperate to avoid making a similar mistake," says Daniel Gros, the director of the Center for European Policy Studies. That's why British Prime Minister Gordon Brown insists that the treaty be ratified by the British Parliament, not a popular referendum. Opinion polls show that E.U.'s most euro-sceptic nation would reject the treaty as convincingly as French and Dutch voters...
...game itself. Never before has rugby drawn so wide a global audience as it has done over the past six weeks of the tournament, and never has it been seen to be played by people of such diverse cultural and socio-economic backgrounds. Forget the stereotypes: Rugby's getting popular...