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Tiger Woods’ golf course design business is on the rocks, highly respected Forbes.com reported at the week’s end. But, says the financially astute website, it has nothing to do with the scandal that has surfaced around his previously secret extra-marital activities. Three years ago Woods announced plans to design his first US golf course on [...]
Jackie Chan says his serious role in “The Karate Kid” was a pleasant break from his usual action-comedy parts. Chan’s turn as the stern Mr. Han, the Mr. Miyagi character in the remake of the ’80s hit, has won praise from reviewers, including The Associated Press. He told reporters in Beijing on Wednesday that such [...]
A massive month-long survey of households across Dubai, including house help, shows that a significant number of Asian and Arab expatriates do not have health insurance cover. The Federal government is working on new laws to make sure these people have health coverage, said a senior Dubai Health Authority (DHA) executive on Sunday, announcing the [...]
MET in person, the northern spotted owl seems an unlikely casus belli. Last Friday, the Woodland Park Zoo here allowed me a private audience with its three captive owls, a mating pair and a lone elderly female, each of whom resembled a miniature, flecked-brown overcoat of Harris tweed. Their eyes — unlike the eyes of [...]
Earth-friendly perennial grain crops, which grow with less fertilizer, herbicide, fuel, and erosion than grains planted annually, could be available in two decades, according to researchers writing in the current issue of the journal Science. Perennial grains would be one of the largest innovations in the 10,000 year history of agriculture, and could arrive even [...]
Actor Brad Pitt will compete with ace footballer David Beckham after the Hollywood superstar joined the committee trying to bring the 2018 World Cup to the United States. Last month, Beckham officially presented England’s bid for the 2018 World Cup to FIFA president Sepp Blatter, and now Pitt has joined the USA Bid Committee. “Soccer [...]
There is ongoing speculation that Tiger Woods and Elin Nordegren are set to dissolve their marriage after reports have emerged that the couple met with separate divorce attorneys on the same day. ‘They met with divorce attorneys at the same time, in different locations,” Radar Online reports a source close to the situation saying. “The [...]