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/ 17 October 2006
A Chinese university aiming to produce ”socially elite” graduates is to make golf compulsory for students, state media reported on Tuesday. Golf was once reviled in Communist China as a symbol of western decadence, but has become hugely popular among the newly affluent since the first golf course opened on the mainland in the early 1980s.
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/ 17 October 2006
Fijian-born rugby player Jone Tawake has had a finger amputated in the hope of ensuring his fitness for next year’s World Cup in France. The 24-year-old ACT Brumbies number eight, capped by Australia at under-19 and under-21 level, had the ring finger on his right hand removed in an operation in Canberra last week, Australian media reported on Tuesday.
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/ 17 October 2006
Being different is good – car dealers’ showrooms are overflowing with boring vehicles that all look the same. "Oh, look! They’ve given it a big silver grille and moved the cab right forward. We must remember to do that that next time!" A couple of year’s later all the offerings in the class look the same, and the designers are hard at work crafting something a little "different."
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/ 17 October 2006
George Bernard Shaw got about on a Lea-Francis, and his good friend Lawrence of Arabia killed himself on a Brough Superior. Elvis Presley, Steve McQueen, George Orwell, King Hussein of Jordan, Howard Hughes, Bob Dylan, King George VI, Sammy Davis Jr, Billy Idol, Mark Knopfler, Liam Neeson, Keanu Reeves, Buddy Holly, Lauren Hutton, Kings Albert I and II of Belgium, George Clooney – the list of famous motorcyclists is endless, but none is as revered as Che Guevara.
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/ 17 October 2006
Call me eccentric if you like, but I’m a large man who loves small cars. Add to that my passion for three cylinder engines and the new Toyota Yaris T1 just has to appeal. Still, I had reservations about the ability of the little one-litre unit to motivate the Yaris very well – as small cars go, the Toyota is comparatively heavy, thanks to all the bells ‘n whistles that are built in as standard.
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/ 17 October 2006
A Zambian man was arrested in Malaysia for allegedly smuggling heroin stuffed in 37 small tubes, which he swallowed before arriving in the country, a news report said on Tuesday. The suspect was detained on Friday at the airport in the tourist resort of Penang, where he arrived from Yangon via Kuala Lumpur.
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/ 17 October 2006
Google is converting its renowned headquarters to run partly on solar power, hoping to set an example for other businesses in the United States. The internet search leader announced what is believed to be the largest solar project undertaken by a US company during a solar energy conference in Silicon Valley on Monday.
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/ 17 October 2006
The Israeli President, Moshe Katsav, on Monday cancelled an appearance at the opening session of Parliament as he faced mounting pressure over a police recommendation that he be charged with rape. But Katsav (60) gave no suggestion that he intended to resign his post, despite the wave of criticism he faces.
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/ 17 October 2006
South Africa was honoured to be elected to a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council on Monday and would work for peace and to reform the UN, said Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma. Delighted officials in Pretoria labelled it ”the opportunity of a lifetime”.
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/ 17 October 2006
African leaders began talks in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on Tuesday aimed at finding a resolution to the four-year-old political crisis that has rocked troubled Côte d’Ivoire. Heads of state from eight of the 15 members of the African Union Peace and Security Council met alongside embattled Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo and Prime Minister Charles Konan Banny.