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...Rewarding Growth Police in northern India are being offered an extra 50 cents per month to sport a moustache, after research showed that officers with the facial hair were taken more seriously...
...favor of an amended proposal, allowing eight schools—including Harvard’s ECAC rivals Clarkson, Rensselaer and St. Lawrence—to maintain their Division III profile while still awarding Division I athletic scholarships in one men’s and one women’s sport...
...Like most Chinese athletes, the Ping-Pong squad must display a soldierly devotion to their sport. Lights-out is at 10:30 p.m. sharp, and minders are supposed to ensure that there's no bed hopping afterward. "Our players are not normal Chinese people," explains Cai. "They are like soldiers, who must maintain self-discipline in order to do well in competition." In Chinese Ping-Pong, there are no love matches...
...mushrooms, may be a bit extreme, but the Czechs are nuts about mushrooms. Seven of 10 Czechs spend at least one day a year foraging. Though every forager keeps his best places secret, mushrooms can be found in almost any kind of forest. But it's not a sport for the uninitiated. There are some 1,500 edible varieties and hundreds of poisonous ones, and the safe and the unsafe often look remarkably alike. Beginners are advised to take along a trained mycologist...
...great turnout,” co-captain Angela Ruggiero said. “Every person in the stadium saw a good hockey game. That’s going to translate into them coming back to a second or third game. That’s how the sport grows...