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...dimly lit Harvard basement, robots are on the move. They kick, shoot, pass, and score. And they may soon dominate the world—the soccer world, that is. Since last spring, the Cambridge Robotic Futbol Club (CRFC) has been creating a team of robots that can play soccer without any human involvement for 20 minutes. The club, which consists of 35 Harvard and MIT undergraduate robot enthusiasts, hopes to qualify for the international showdown of simulated soccer players: the RoboCup World Cup. “The ultimate goal of RoboCup is to create a team of robots that...
...Numbers $328 MILLION Revenue earned by Spanish soccer club Real Madrid in 2004-05, making it the wealthiest team in the world according to Deloitte's Football Money League 8 Consecutive years that British team Manchester United topped the list before being unseated by Real Madrid...
...with a quip in response to the swelling applause that greeted him: “It’s a thrill to attend a warm and friendly Harvard meeting!” Once the Kiddush had been said, Jews and friends-of alike ate, mingled, and compared yarmulke couture. Soccer ball-patterned and pleather options were discussed; no consensus was reached on which would best suit attendee Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz. Mark D. Lurie ’07 and his tablemates, sporting yarmulkes in tasteful basic black, almost made up for the sartorial impasse with a collaborative...
...reporter, known around the White House as the only person besides Laura Bush who can tell the President he's wrong, now has the job of bridging the chasm between the U.S. and the Muslim world. Hughes, 49, spoke with TIME's Elaine Shannon and Jay Carney about how soccer and Oprah figure into her role as Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy...
...REACH BEYOND THE TRADITIONAL ELITES AND GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS? In our exchange programs, we're making a real effort to reach out to young people in different populations, not just lites. We've got a World Cup program--soccer is a world sport, something America took up after the rest of the world--and so we're going to have our embassies very involved in inviting kids to come watch the games this summer...