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...there was one lesson learned from the Asian Games held in Doha last December, it was this: the thousand seats allocated to matches of sepak takraw could have been doubled-maybe even tripled-and the crowds would have still filled them. Imagine the speed and precision of volleyball cut with the aerial kicks of soccer at its showiest-set in the intensely combative, close-quarters environment of an indoor court-and you have some idea why this Southeast Asian sport is so visually addictive. Sepak takraw looks like it was devised to a global broadcaster's order. But it originated...
...impossible to say whether that's a realistic possibility or a devotee's daydream. But we can say this much: the next time sepak takraw features in the lineup of a major international sports event like the Asian Games, there'd better be a lot more than a thousand seats on offer...
...Italy. The tall, slender champion of the computer began training when he was 16, and hopes eventually to retire a wealthy man. "I want to be rich," he says simply, and that may not be idle talk: Gamers at Choi's level of skill can earn several hundred thousand dollars a year off their keyboard and mouse - and the adulation of the nation's twenty- and thirty somethings, especially young women. Here, gaming isn't regarded as a geeky pastime, and the sport has a substantial following, even fan clubs, which ensure celebrity status for its champions as any other...
...Because the social conservative minority in Iowa has been very effective at getting its voters to attend caucuses, this group has had a disproportionate influence on Republican campaigns. Never was this clearer than in 1988, when just a few thousand voters vaulted Rev. Pat Robertson out of the pack, briefly rattling the establishment campaigns of George Bush Sr. and Bob Dole. Robertson then converted the energy of that boomlet into the highly influential Christian Coalition of the 1990s, which did so much to shape contemporary Republican politics...
...many of us are left on our own after completing a course of treatment. In too many instances, the physician says, Come back and see me in a year. We all need accurate and up-to-date information as we move forward with our lives. Mervyn Kopp, Thousand Oaks, California...