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...social-networking site for soccer fans that mimics MySpace.com the networking juggernaut that Rupert Murdoch recently purchased for $580 million. The most innovative aspect of Nike's broad Joga Bonito (Portuguese for Play Beautiful) World Cup marketing campaign, joga.com has about 800,000 members from Chile, Afghanistan, Malaysia, New Zealand--you name it. The company says it adds a new member every eight seconds...
...expect myself to come this far." In the rarefied world of the America's Cup, genuine underdogs don't come along very often. Only once has the Cup ever been won by a first-time challenger. That happened in 2003, when the Swiss Team Alinghi defeated Team New Zealand in Auckland, bringing the cup to Europe for the first time since a U.S. boat won the Auld Mug, in a race off the Isle of Wight back in 1851. Africa's yachting tradition is limited, to put it kindly. Though sailors in eastern and western Africa skillfully navigate the seas...
DRIVING A NEW COURSE Golfer Tiger Woods, in New Zealand last week for his caddie's wedding, won a charity stock-car race, despite crashing into the wall on the third lap. Gives new meaning to being in the rough...
...under lockdown, with a night curfew and a ban on the sale of alcohol. As well as rushing in 220 extra soldiers and 70 police, Australia has dispatched two Navy patrol boats, two Army Iroquois helicopters and a platoon of airfield-defense guards. Together with reinforcements from Fiji, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea, they are being kept on alert in case further violence breaks out when Parliament meets this week...
...likely difficulty of finding countries willing to take them off Australia's hands, says McDowell: "Resettlement countries are becoming more selective in who they take, from where, and on whose terms." Many of those taken to Nauru in 2001 and found to be refugees were accepted by New Zealand, but in Wellington, a spokesman for Immigration Minister David Cunliffe says Australia has made no request for talks on a future resettlement deal. He might expect a call soon...