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The “Manny Happy Returns Tour” hits San Diego tonight. Feel free to dread. Without a doubt, tens of thousands of blue-clad Dodgers fans are coming south for the weekend series at Petco Park that's been circled on their calendar for 50 games, the length of playing time that superstar slugger Manny Ramirez was suspended May 7 after evidence indicated he used a banned substance.
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THE official line is that he is "in excellent health". But news that one of Australia's biggest bankers, the 66-year-old founder of Macquarie Bank, David Clarke, has quit two board positions has raised a few eyebrows around town.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy wants to ban Muslim women from wearing the burqa, a religious traditional covering, in public. American Muslim Mehded Maryam Sinclair explains why she appreciates the right to cover her face and head in public, while Muslim feminist and columnist Mona Eltahawy tells why she sees the garment as a source of oppression.
According to the prospect rankings, Ryan Sadowski shouldn't be in the major leagues. Sadowski would agree with that last part. But not because of anything that's been said or written about him.
Rookie pitcher suffered subdural hematoma in 2003, his first year in the minors, says that 'a sixth of my brain was filled with blood"
U.S. automakers have spent a lot of time lately wondering whether someone can think up a solution for their economic woes. Meanwhile, one of their Japanese counterparts is using brainpower in a different way: to control the movement and direction of a wheelchair. Researchers at Toyota have announced the development of a new brain-machine interface that can allow a person to steer a wheelchair ...
(Jun 29, 2009) -- Who would have thought that overdressed women could engender intense political controversy? But such is the case in France where just recently President Nicolas Sarkozy has strongly repudiated the burka, a tent-like garment worn by some Muslim women that covers them from head to toe. Sarkozy said, "In our country we cannot accept that women be prisoners behind a screen . . . ...
Chris Columbus is directing a film adaptation of Rick Riordan's first Percy Jackson & the Olympians novel, The Lightning Thief , a 21st-century take on Greek mythology. But Columbus said that he isn't worried that Warner Brothers is making its own Greek-inspired movie, a remake of Clash of the Titans . "No, because we're first," Columbus said in an exclusive interview Saturday in Santa Monica, ...
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