John Taffin's comments regarding in the July issue on CAS are spot on, unfortunately. It seems every shooting sport seems to commit suicide at some point in time. The only handgun sport I can think of that didn't was IHMSA shooting, which was shoved aside by CAS. Let's look at...
SO HERE'S HOW THIS WORKS. Take this page and Xerox it or scan it and print it out. Then cut out the fortune that you find the most inappropriate and stick it in your pocket. Then go eat at a Chinese restaurant, or any other restaurant that gives you a...
Weird and Wonderful Inventions More than 1,000 bizarre items have been rounded up for this exhibition, including a clockwork burglar alarm and a whiskey- bottle lock. The curator Maurice Collins set out to find inventions that try to facilitate everyday actions, usually and preferably in an unusual...
After producing 10,181 rushing yards and another 4,009 yards through the air, running back Warrick Dunn is delighted to be back where he started. He has returned to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, to a franchise that drafted him out of Florida State with the 12th overall pick in...
ENJOY Theatre Royal BATH **** Alan Bennett's Enjoy was not enjoyed by the undiscerning critics, and flopped when first presented in 1980. It has since been acknowledged as a play that's not just wildly funny but also weirdly prescient of the soon-to-be-booming heritage industry, and of...
In some ways, it feels weird to Carson Lyness when she steps onto the soccer field these days. Lyness is only a freshman defender at Rowland Hall, but she has already started all of the Winged Lions" varsity games. Going up against players two and three years...
COME with me to a fantasy land where business is booming and there's no such thing as the Olympics. Welcome to wonderful Weatherfield - the polar opposite of the real world. Beijing? Never heard of it! Credit crunch? What credit crunch? While...
Use It Or Lose It (7.30pm) Former basketball star Jerome Westbrooks, left, reunites with the team of 1994 for one last match. Plus Mark Keenan discovers his stressful lifestyle may jeopardise his chances of playing at all. Today at the Olympics (7pm)...
Page Turner A snow globe. A packet of onion seeds. A small cotton sack with "Life's a beach" printed on the front, filled with jelly beans. A white T-shirt with a dinosaur on it. A "detailed scale replica" of a Harley- Davidson. Two mystifying balls of...
1. You have eight brothers and sisters. Were any of them in the stadium to see you win 400m gold on Tuesday? Yes, two of my brothers - Obi, who is 25, and Charlie, who is 18. Obi was crying out when I won. It was really...
Trackside and Trigger Happy My final weird sport of the Olympics - I'm in the Indoor National Stadium, now vacated by the gymnasts for ... handball, a men's placement match between Poland and Korea (they don't specify which Korea ... I'm assuming it's the South because...
Edinburgh Festival 2008 STEVE REICH EVENING Edinburgh Festival Theatre ** Repetition is so much the point of these dances that it seems weird to complain about it. The Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker made her international breakthrough with dances to Steve Reich's music. At first,...
By Asher Fusco THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL LAWRENCE -- Brittany Williams is feeling good -- a feeling that has been a long time coming. The University of Kansas volleyball player missed half of her sophomore season after tearing her ACL in September....
Just because you can do it, does it mean that you should? Every summer, the nation's otherwise wholesome ice cream makers appear to stage an unofficial Olympics of Weirdness to showcase their latest offbeat flavors. Here's a guide to some of the versions being scooped out to adventuresome palates this...
A joyous union with readers, or marketing chore? John Walsh delves into the weird world of book signings To some authors, the book-signing is a curse. What could be more excruciatingly dull, to the sensitive creative mind, than to sit for hours in a festival tent...
NEW YORK -- Squab, a polite term for baby pigeon, isn't on the menu, so author Courtney Humphries, dubbed "pigeon girl" by her friends, has a salad. In her new book, Superdove: How the Pigeon Took Manhattan ... and the World (Smithsonian/Collins, $24.95), Humphries, 31, describes how, in...
The Polish Missile Crisis: Bush's Last War? NEW YORK--"The Cold War is over," Condi Rice said last week. This may be true. She and her lame duck boss seem to be starting up a hot one instead. Imagine Russian or Chinese military bases in Tijuana or...
One morning, after achieving four straight hours watching the Olympics, I realised it was time to stop when the commentator said, and these were the exact words: "You have to say, that is a very important moment in the history of Algerian judo." The only times it's...
I don't think I knew who my freshman roommate was until I walked into the dorm and met him face to face. Syracuse might have sent me his name and hometown, but I don't think so. Life was more spontaneous back then. Full of surprises. You rolled with...
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