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...Grant Park and the tip of the Willis (né Sears) Tower at your back, gaze out at the site of the planned rowing venue. Instead of the geese you hear honking, imagine coxswains barking at their boat mates. A comfortable breeze blows in your face on a sun-splashed Saturday afternoon. "Look around," says Casie Piejko, an Olympic supporter and a 30-year city resident, during a break from biking along the lake. "It's beautiful." (See 10 things to do in Chicago...
This year’s Ig Nobel Prize winners gathered for an evening of funny and thought-provoking speeches at MIT on Saturday afternoon for the Ig Nobel Prize lectures...
...Saturday, the dogs were heading to Pariaman, a remote area close to the epicenter of the 7.6 magnitude tremor, joining search- and-rescue squads from South Korea, Singapore, Japan and the United Arab Emirates. The day before, Pariaman regency's secretary Yuen Karnova received a call late at night informing him that foreign experts had arrived, and he rejoiced, "God bless, help is coming." The chance of finding survivors in the landslides triggered by the quake in that region will be very slim. Still, the Swiss team prepares the dogs for the journey to Pariaman by dunking the dogs...
...Other canine units are also on the scene. On Saturday, at the Ambacang Hotel, where dozens are believed to still be trapped in the massive wreckage, a pair of Japanese dogs - Eros, a German shepherd, and Akane, a Golden retriever - begin sniffing through the mountains of rubble from the once-graceful colonial-style historic building. The dogs were each trained for five years for such missions, but this is their first time in the field overseas. "Sometimes when you are doing the training, you forget that it's for something real, says Hidehiro Murase, the president of the Rescue...
Last year, Ireland cast a shadow over the future of the European Union in a referendum vote that rejected a treaty to reform the Union's decision making, but on Saturday, Irish voters reversed that decision. To the delight of Ireland's business and political establishment, results from a new referendum saw 67% of Irish voters approve the Lisbon treaty...