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Murray, Campos share lead at Puerto Rico Open
AFP, Published on 28/02/2021
» MIAMI: Grayson Murray fired a seven-under-par 65 to grab a share of the lead at the US PGA Tour's Puerto Rico Open on Saturday.
Taiwan is still in China's web of war games
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 27/01/2021
» Most news agencies reported on Sunday that China sent large groups of fighters and bombers into the Taiwanese airspace two days in a row. Much fluttering in the dovecote: the Chinese are testing the resolve of newly installed US President Joe Biden.
Humbled Trump seeks warmer welcome in Florida
AFP, Published on 17/01/2021
» MIAMI - President Donald Trump will leave Washington in disgrace next week, destined for a warmer welcome in Florida, where some supporters are so gung-ho they recently wrote his name on the back of a fat, lumbering manatee.
'Pretenderloin' not so bad
News, Postbag, Published on 13/12/2020
» Eric Bahrt in his Dec 12 letter is back again with his "Meat is murder" campaign. I'm not in agreement with Eric, but this time he did touch a sympathetic nerve. During the late 50s when Chicago was the meat packing capital of the USA, (and I was still a teenager), I was taken on a tour of the Swift and Armor meat slaughterhouses and packing plants. I vomited copiously at the disgusting spectacle before me, and swore never to eat another piece of meat. I lasted about a year before I recanted and had a burger. Did I learn my lesson? Yes Eric, I did. But I'm still carnivorous.
Arecibo telescope, star of the astronomy world, to be decommissioned
AFP, Published on 20/11/2020
» WASHINGTON - The renowned Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico will be dismantled after 57 years of service due to the rupture of cables that have led to the threat of collapse, the US National Science Foundation announced Thursday.
Nerves and serves: International table tennis back after 238 days
AFP, Published on 09/11/2020
» SHANGHAI - Top players said they were nervous and rusty, but excited, as international table tennis returned this week in China after an enforced eight-month break because of the coronavirus.
Masks and Covid-19: In the US, a patchwork of policies persist
AFP, Published on 29/10/2020
» WASHINGTON - As the United States' Covid-19 infection rate hits an all-time high, calls are growing for a nationwide mask mandate to replace the current patchwork of state regulations.
Heart of music beats on
Life, John Clewley, Published on 27/10/2020
» British documentary filmmaker Jeremy Marre, who died aged 76 in April this year, made films for television on popular music from all corners of the planet. From his breakthrough TV film Root Rock Reggae in 1977, to his last film, a documentary on jazz great Count Basie in 2019, Marre was in a class of his own.
Remembering a legend
Life, Noko, Published on 18/09/2020
» Baseball great Roberto Clemente once said: "Any time you have an opportunity to make a difference in this world and you don't, then you are wasting your time on Earth."
US professor who posed as black woman quits university
AFP, Published on 10/09/2020
» WASHINGTON - A white US university professor who lied for years about being black has quit her job at George Washington University in the capital Washington, the school said Wednesday.