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Fast Furious 6 Sung Kang says...
franchise doesn’t engage in too much narrative trickery. The plots are straightforward — and by straightforward, I mean there are cars and people who drive those cars and those people use their cars to fight other people in cars. Carfight! But there’s a surprisingly complicated aspect of the films’ chronology, and that aspect is the character Han, played by actor Sung ...
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Blue Is the Warmest Color Cannes
Cannes 2013: 'Blue Is the Warmest Color' is a seriously sexy three-hour French lesbian coming-of-age love story. Plus, Marion Cotillard and Joaquin Phoenix in 'The ...
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Food miles Work up an appetite for the food festival season
Traditionally, food and drink festivals have celebrated a single ingredient at its seasonal best - and there are still numerous examples of the type around the ...
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Employers rank personality over degree when hiring Report
Your personality and not that proverbial piece of paper, a degree, just might land you that job you're gunning for, a surprising report says. According to a BMO Bank of Montreal survey, personality traits outrank both credentials and education for many employers who are looking to hire new graduates. The report revealed that skill set lies second on the list, work experience ranks third, ...
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Sideline Champs Sport legend hit at sons high school rugby game
Softball great Eddie Kohlhase was punched on the sideline of an Auckland schools rugby match last weekend, the latest in a line of shameful incidents officials are trying to stamp out. But neither principal of the two schools involved - Kelston Boys High School and St Peter's College - has been willing to talk about the scrap, despite it involving the first man to win world softball ...
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Austrian overcomes fear of heights to aim for slackline record
FRANKFURT, May 25 - An Austrian man tip-toed along a line strung 185 meters (607 feet) off the ground in Frankfurt on Saturday, attempting to set a new world record for "highlining" despite his fear of ...
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150 years after Gettysburg drummer to recreate reunion march
Jim Smith (L), 70, of Hempfield, leads members of the Grand Army of the Republic Post 88, Pittsburgh, and the Armbrust Veterans and Civil War Re-enactors, including Luke Prohaska (C) in a Civil War uniform, for a ceremony at the graveside of Peter Guibert, a Union Civil War drummer boy, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania May 24, ...
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25 best songs of spring TV
May 25, 2013 Music that really clicked on ''Girls,'' ''Vampire Diaries,'' ''HIMYM,'' ''Arrow,'' ''NCIS,'' and more; hear 'em all on our Spotify ...
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TV music Our wishlist
TV Jukebox , I’ve been excited to single out some amazing tunes by new-to-me acts: Brooklyn’ssultry-spooky duo MS MR, soulful piano balladeer Sara Jackson-Holman, L.A. poppers Milo Greene, and singer-songwriter Adam Agin, to name a few. That said, I realized ...
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Lifestyle Why authorities should tread carefully on the uptake of vaccine
NAIROBI, KENYA: Now that the Government has launched a pilot project to vaccinate schoolgirls in Kitui against the human papillomavirus (HPV), which is associated with cervical cancer, our health authorities should find time to familiarise themselves with a petition to prohibit similar vaccinations of Indian girls that is currently awaiting determination by ...
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HTCs Facebook phone launch postponed in UK and Europe
The phone, called the HTC First, was first released in the US in mid-April and aimed to base its success around Facebook Home - a "super app" that overlays the phone's home screen with news and pictures from the user's Facebook account.Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, launched the software on 4 April, claiming it would "change the relationship" users had with their ...
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Corporal punishment has long history in Japanese sports
Getting slapped by a coach has always been, as far as I could see, simply another aspect of sports training in Japan. I remember being invited to see a practice session at the Isenoumi sumo stable in eastern Tokyo back in the early 1960s shortly after I arrived for my first stay in Japan. Obese young sumo wrestlers grappled with each other and ...
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Bryan Burwell Yes golf is the sport of gentlemen but rumbles are allowed
ST. LOUIS - The kind and gentle folk who package professional golf to the masses as the sport of splendidly proper sportsmen would surely have enjoyed a casual stroll around Bellerive’s pastoral acreage on Thursday afternoon in St. Louis. Even with storm clouds lurking over the opening round of the Senior PGA Championship, golf’s over-50 set of old lions were on their best behavior. ...
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Psy to perform in Indonesia South Korean diplomatic celebration
South Korean pop star Psy will perform in Indonesia at a concert celebrating diplomatic ties between the two countries, his management agency said Saturday. The performance -- which will not be staged as a solo concert -- will mark Psy's first visit to Indonesia, the Jakarta Globe reported. The "Gangnam Style" singer will perform July 6 at the Gelora Bung Karno Sports Complex in ...
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Leave sports to sportspersons Omar Abdullah
"I am personally of the view that sports bodies should be administered by sportspersons -- that is the great favour we can do to sportspeople," he ...
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Thousands watch as murdered anti-Mafia priest is beatified in Sicily
Pope Benedict , put Puglisi on the fast track towards sainthood in the Roman Catholic Church when he signed a decree last year recognizing that Puglisi had been killed "in hatred of the faith." That meant he could be beatified - the last step before sainthood - without a miracle being attributed to his intercession with God. A miracle is required for him to be declared a saint, ...
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Google Apple and Facebook stage bidding war over buying crowdsourced GPS app Waze
Crowdsourced navigation app Waze is reportedly at the centre of a bidding war with the company "fielding expressions of interest from multiple parties", Bloomberg ...
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Spot-fixing effect New law soon to deal with malpractices in sports says Sibal
In the wake of shocking allegations of spot-fixing in IPL, a new standalone law to deal with such "dishonest practices" in all kinds of sports will be enacted soon.Announcing this in New Delhi on Saturday, Law Minister Kapil Sibal said the new law was favoured by Attorney General G E Vahanvati as activities like match-fixing or spot-fixing are not covered under the present laws.He told ...
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States have agreed to model sports law Jitendra Singh
End ie2013-contentLeft--> Sports Minister Jitendra Singh today said all the states have agreed to a model law suggested by the centre to tackle the menace of betting and match-fixing that has rocked Indian cricket."The states have agreed to the suggestion that the centre could develop a model sports law for adoption by the states," Jitendra said in a statement after the two-day ...
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Within a week of buying Tumblr Yahoo joins Time Warner in race for Hulu
After this week's acquisition of blog site Tumblr, Yahoo is reportedly moving to buy online video service Hulu, in what might be the latest tech bidding ...
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Sports Manchester United considers move for Marouane Fellaini
:David Moyes is weighing up a move for Marouane Fellaini and the Everton midfielder's 24m release clause is no barrier to any prospective deal should the incoming Manchester United manager decide to lodge a bid. Moyes, though, is not currently minded to bring Fellaini's team-mate Leighton Baines to ...
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Sports Arsenal to smash wage structure to Wayne Rooney
Arsenal hierarchy will back Wenger not just in terms of big money for transfers but also for contracts and they are capable of competing to sign ...
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Forum for NHS staff to get together and talk to be expanded
A scheme which encourages NHS staff to get together once a month to discuss the stresses of their jobs is to be rolled out across the health service, officials ...
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Theatre shows autistic children can enjoy
family outings, along with his father, Dustin, and sister, Amber, two, can be anxiety-inducing. The slightest change to the usual setup - a slide moved, say, or the menu changed - upsets him. Trips to the local park in Oxford are full of everyday social rules that he finds hard to understand, such as queueing and waiting. "When he gets angry, it's like a classic two-year-old's ...
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My dad was a homeless alcoholic – but he got a second chance at life
After sitting his GCSEs, Duncan Gall went to Tenerife with his friends from school. He remembers the bittersweet feeling of arriving home, missing the beach and sun, but glad to be back. He and his father, John, lived in a flat in Peterborough. His mother, Maureen, had died four years before. Duncan had started to rummage for his keys when he spotted the notice. "It said we'd been ...
Kuala Lumpur Spotlight
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City's major raw water project
It’s been in the pipelines for several years, but finally the Pahang-Selangor raw water transfer project has found its feet with an official groundbreaking ceremony held in April of 2010, the facility, when completed, will enable a massive region of the country, including Kuala Lumpur, Selangor and Putrajaya to cope with increasing demand for raw water treatment from industrial, residential and tourism sectors of the economy.
The raw water treatment project is a massive undertaking: a pipeline is to be constructed run from Sungai Semantan in Pahang to the Hulu Langat water treatment facility in Selangor, it will be 44.6 kilometers long, the longest tunnel of its kind in Asia and the sixth largest in the world. When operating at maximum capacity, over 1,800 litres of raw water will be pumped to Selangor and treated for conversion to fresh water, according to Kuala Lumpur news media. Read more
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