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...cruel fate for the co-hosts, who put out maximum effort in both of its matches and got nothing to show for it. And the wash-out was just the beginning for Swiss fans: by the end of the week all their ethnic cousins in Europe's soccer heartland were faring far worse than predicted after Germany lost to the Croats, Italy squeaked through with a draw against Romania, and the French team was handed an ignoble 4-1 defeat by the Dutch...
...says Dr. David Katz, of Yale University's School of Public Health. "We know that kids will be more active if their parents are more active." The key, says Katz, is to get the entire family to be more imaginative about what activity means. Not everyone likes to play soccer or climb trees, and most kids won't sit still for an hour-long workout--or more likely, sitting still is exactly what they will do. But none of that is necessary. Katz has developed school programs based on short bursts of activity five or more times...
...unchallenged, passed along the cost of the global increase to his country's drivers. Biya was more careful than some of his Western counterparts, however, in choosing his moment to raise the price at the pump: The announcement, in mid-February, coincided with the semifinal of Africa's huge soccer tournament, the Nations Cup, in which Cameroon defeated the host country, Ghana. Cameroonians poured into the streets to celebrate the victory. Amid the raucous partying and the suspense over the impending showdown against Egypt in the tournament final, few noticed that the government had - without a word of discussion...
...Diggers packed their kitbags, their countrymen were battling Iraq on the soccer field: on June 1 the Socceroos eked out a 1-0 win in qualifying skirmishes for the 2010 World Cup. In Geelong, ships were loading the first grain shipments for Iraq since 2006, and Australian farmers were hopeful that the country would be restored as one of their biggest wheat markets...
...God’s sake. I think the side Harvard has chosen to see of him is not who he is.”Few would guess that the quiet dean often ran along the sidelines swearing at the 14-year-old referees as his daughter played little-league soccer or that as a college student, threw firecrackers in the back of trucks with his friends, and once had to take a friend home in a wheelbarrow after a party he had hosted.She added that her father expected that the alcohol decision would not make...