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Michael Phelps is slowest qualifier in 400 IM

2012-07-28 15:25:48 (читать в оригинале)

Michael Phelps qualified eighth-fastest in the 400-meter individual medley preliminaries on Saturday, grabbing the last spot in the evening final. The two-time defending Olympic champion won his heat in 4 minutes and 13.33 seconds with a time that was well off his world record of 4:03.84 set four years ago in Beijing – when Phelps [...]

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Service “Google Fiber” launches in Kansas City

2012-07-27 13:49:12 (читать в оригинале)

Sonya Andrews may not be the first on her block to tap into Google Inc.’s much-hyped, hyper-fast Internet hook-ups announced Thursday. But her neighborhood could be one of the first in Kansas City to get an express lane to the web. “I don’t know about anyone else” – she emailed her Coleman Highlands neighbors in [...]

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London Summer Olympics 2012

2012-07-26 15:21:15 (читать в оригинале)

An Olympic competitor has claimed political asylum in Britain, the Mail can reveal. The man (believed to be a middle distance runner in his mid 20′s from Africa) was being held by the UK Borders Agency last night after walking into a police station in Leeds and asking for asylum. The claim comes at a [...]

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Actor Sherman Hemsley dead at 74‎

2012-07-25 14:52:49 (читать в оригинале)

Sherman Hemsley (the man who brought George Jefferson to vivid life) has died at age 74. The accomplished stage actor achieved his widest fame in a role he raised to comic greatness – George Jefferson, the egotistical, strutting centerpiece of The Jeffersons. Hemsley took a part that could have been clownish and exaggerated — George [...]

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Astronaut Sally Ride dead at 61‎

2012-07-24 13:55:37 (читать в оригинале)

Space used to be a man’s world. Then came Sally Ride, who blazed a cosmic trail for U.S. women into orbit. With a pitch perfect name out of a pop song refrain, she joined the select club of American space heroes the public knew by heart – Shepard, Glenn, Armstrong and Aldrin. Ride, the first [...]