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/ 27 February 2005
David Toms was flawless from tee to green and made crucial putts to beat big-hitting Adam Scott to advance to the Match Play Championship semifinals for the second time in three years on Saturday. US Open champion Retief Goosen, Chris DiMarco and Ian Poulter of the United Kingdom also reached the semifinals.
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/ 27 February 2005
The ACT Brumbies started their Super 12 title defence with a costly 32-21 win over Canterbury, overcoming injuries to captain Stirling Mortlock and winger Clyde Rathbone in Saturday’s rematch of the 2004 final. Wellington beat the Queensland Reds 24-10, and the Cats, last year’s wooden-spooners, upset the Bulls 23-17 in Johannesburg.
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/ 27 February 2005
A spacecraft that flies on sunbeams is about to begin its travels across the solar system. A group of American and Russian scientists is preparing to launch a probe with giant, wafer-thin plastic sails that can catch sunlight just as a yacht’s sails fill with wind. Cosmos-1 has been designed to tack across space without using rockets.
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/ 27 February 2005
The Odyssey youth centre is hidden behind an unmarked door on an anonymous site near downtown Spokane. Nothing betrays its purpose to the outside world. Inside, gay teenagers lounge on sofas, shoot pool, flirt and surf the internet. But now activists have embarked on a radical plan to create a gay business district in the heart of the city.
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/ 27 February 2005
Sunday night’s Oscar ceremony will be the most expensive privately funded bonanza of all time. The prize-giving event itself has been both remodelled and drastically cut in length in an attempt to shore up falling television ratings, but the promotional expenditure surrounding the annual awards has spiralled out of control.
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/ 27 February 2005
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas angrily accused a ”third party” on Saturday of sabotaging the Middle East peace process by orchestrating the suicide bombing on Friday night, as Israel threatened a resumption of targeted killings of militants. Syria and Islamic Jihad have been accused of being behind the bombing.
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/ 27 February 2005
Pope John Paul II will not lead Sunday prayers for the first time in his 26-year-old pontificate and will instead follow along with the traditional address from the hospital where he is recovering from a throat operation to ease a breathing crisis. Sunday’s prayer comes after the pope’s third night in hospital care.
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/ 26 February 2005
At first glance, Aaron Mokoena appears as tough as his reputation. A heavily scarred right cheek, a gold tooth with his initial engraved on it, a childhood in Boipatong where he lived through the 1992 massacre and, of course, the nickname: M’bazo — ”the Axe”. But when the South African captain turns out for Blackburn Rovers, he’s generally thinking of one person: his mum.
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/ 26 February 2005
The Jewish Board of Education this week banned gay American Rabbi Steven Greenberg from addressing students at Johannesburg’s King David High School — during the school’s ”tolerance week”. The soft-spoken Greenberg, who holds a philosophy degree, is visiting South Africa to break down anti-gay prejudice among Jews.
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/ 26 February 2005
Most people would rather handle a grenade than Wayne Rooney’s temper. Jeannie Horsfield is the anger management expert Manchester United have entrusted with the task and last week Rooney’s temperament was tested more than ever as he re-acquainted himself with Everton. He passed with flying colours.