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...Going into it, we had nothing to lose,” senior co-captaing Lizzie Nichols said. “In terms of the game itself, you have to be absolutely plugged in at every second of the game...
...enjoyed the same prominence for young Americans. That's changing. More than 11,000 Americans studied abroad in China last year, a 25% increase over the previous year, making it the fifth most popular destination, according to the Institute of International Education. Students from China are already the second largest group of foreign students at U.S. universities, after those from India, but their numbers are increasing as well. Last year, 81,000 mainlanders studied in the U.S., a 20% increase from 2008. Growing educational exchanges can only help relations, says Zhu Feng, a professor of international studies at Peking University...
...This is the second prominent apology Rudd has made since he took office in a landslide election in 2007. The first was to the "stolen generation" - tens of thousands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island children who were removed from their families between 1869 to 1969 by the government. (See pictures of the day Rudd apologized to the stolen generation...
...maxillofacial surgeon, Jerome Sobel has brought a smile - literally - to hundreds of patients' faces. But the Lausanne physician has a second job that is far more somber: helping terminally ill people end their lives. Sobel is president for French-speaking Switzerland's chapter of EXIT, an assisted-suicide organization that provides a lethal dose of barbiturates to terminally ill patients who want to end their life. (See pictures of suicide in the U.S. Army recruiters' ranks...
...Sobel may soon have less to do in that second job. The Swiss government, concerned that Switzerland is becoming a destination for "suicide tourism," wants to tighten its decades-old assisted-suicide law, considered to be the most liberal of its kind in the world. As it stands, the legislation permits assisted suicide if a physician is convinced that the patient has no chance of recovery, that he or she is mentally and physically capable of making the decision to die and that the patient administers the drug - about 10 grams of sodium pentobarbital mixed with a fruit juice...