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...avid squash player from a squash-loving family, Hill at first found himself unable to practice his sport except on weekends...
Hill’s military service may help motivate him, but he needs nothing to encourage him to give squash his all. Even talking about the sport gives Hill an obvious degree of pleasure...
...being familiar with shooting as a sport, FlyBy’s first reaction was…well, unease. (In fact, the first gunshot in this video, from the outing's Facebook event page, made us jump a little...
...about 60 percent of the people who have RSVP’d for the event so far are newbies, Wang told us, and free coaching will be provided. “Guns can, of course, be very dangerous, but part of the sport is learning proper safety techniques, so being afraid of the equipment shouldn't be a reason for missing out on this wonderful sport,” he said...
...successful 2008 Olympics showed China as a world leader in sport, and the relative strength of the country's economy amid the global financial downturn has given it further economic clout. China's domestic publishing industry has expanded rapidly since economic reforms began in the late 70s, with 270,000 titles published last year, but overseas recognition of this growing body of literature hasn't followed as quickly. Chinese leaders have long worried about China's lack of soft-power influence of the sort that the U.S. and Europe achieve through their prominent roles in media and arts...