| Jackie Robinson's impact alive after 60 years
Jackie Robinson always seemed to understand that his real impact would extend far beyond the baseball diamond. One of many things that made him special is that he saw his sport as a means to an end. Maybe that's why Martin Luther King Jr. said Robinson had a dramatic impact on the civil rights movement because he forced people to confront the possibility of change. He paid an ugly price, enduring slum hotels, racist teammates, head-hunting pitchers, taunting fans and death threats. Did you hear the one about the opposing catcher spitting on Robinson's shoes in the batter's box? Robinson wasn't a patient or passive man by nature. He played the game with an edge and wasn't inclined to look the other way on injustice, either. During his Army days, he was court-martialed for refusing to move to the back of a bus.
Will China's poisoned pet food lead next to human food chain?
ChemNutra, the Las Vegas importer of the contaminated wheat gluten that led to the original 100-plus packaged pet food recallalso imports pet sickening rice protein concentrate from China, "though from another source". "The company has been testing those shipments," according to spokesman Steve Stern. (Andrew Bridges, AP, April 18, 2007). In other words, ChemNutra, whose Chinese headquarters are within 50 miles of wheat gluten-producing Xuhou Anying Biologic Technology Development Co. Ltd., is up to its bag brim in the rice gluten poison pet food scandal. Binzhou Futian Biology Technology Co. Ltd. is suspected as the company making the rice protein. In the poisonous path leading to dead or sickened animals, first came North America, then Puerto Rico.
WK Mombassa veldslag onder atleten
Jos Hermens had het al eerde op onze site gememoreerd de omstandigheden in Mombassa tijdens het WK waren te zwaar voor een WK cross. Bekele stapte uit met uitdrogingsverschijnselen. Ook elders bij de andere wedstrijden geraakten atleten en atletes het spoor volledig bijster Veel uitvallers Even opvallend was, dat de Ethiopische favorieten voor de wereldtitels (behalve Bekele ook Tirunesh Dibaba) niet konden winnen. Hooglanders dus, die trainen in de droge, ijle lucht en niet goed leken voorbereid op de tropische hitte en hoge luchtvochtigheidsgraad in de Keniaanse kustplaats Mombasa. De omstandigheden maakten zaterdag veel slachtoffers (in totaal 82 uitvallers) als gevolg van oververhitting en problemen met de cordinatie, die duidden op uitdroging. Het overkwam zelfs Bekele. Hij verklaarde na afloop dat zijn cordinatie ineens terugliep.
Track Tigers on an Elephant in Kipling's `Jungle Book' Forest
April 18 (Bloomberg) -- A jackal is stalking us. He's just behind us on the track. When we stop, he stops. When we move, he follows. We name him Rover. One of the inhabitants of India's Pench National Park, Rover eventually left us alone as we searched for other wildlife in the forest that inspired Rudyard Kipling's ``Jungle Book.'' The park is one of six tiger reserves chosen by Taj Hotel group for a chain of wildlife lodges set up with Johannesburg-based CC Africa. Baghvan, the second in the chain, opened in February. Safaris are becoming big business in India as hotels compete for a growing number of wealthy visitors who are moving beyond the well-trodden triangle linking Delhi, Jaipur and the Taj Mahal. Luxury operators Amanresorts Ltd. and Oberoi Hotels & Resorts have opened a camp each near Ranthambore Park since 2001.
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