07/05/2008
Group: Families turning to video games (UPI)
LONDON, July 5 (UPI) -- British families increasingly are turning to video games for entertainment as the ongoing credit crisis restricts their finances, a game maker says.
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07/05/2008
China to close plants over Games (BBC News)
Factories in Tianjin near Beijing are ordered to close in an attempt to improve air quality a month before the Olympic Games.
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07/06/2008
40 Chinese factories closed ahead of Beijing Games (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
China has ordered the closure of 40 factories in a city close to Beijing in the run-up to the Olympic Games.
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07/06/2008
End Games, By Michael Dibdin (Independent)
Published posthumously, End Games sees Michael Dibdin's Venetian detective, Aurelio Zen, investigating the kidnapping of an American lawyer in Calabria. Zen is as world-weary as ever, although somehow hardwired to the task of seeing that justice is eventually done. A plot involving the production of a film version of St John's Apocalypse ("Saint John of Patmos has variously been described as an ...
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07/05/2008
China will hold the Olympic Games on its own terms (Slam! Sports)
You know the Olympics are near when the usual gang of juiced-up Bulgarian weightlifters gets tossed from the games before even learning how to say in Chinese, "These needles are for therapeutic use only."
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07/06/2008
Australian newspaper praises China for Games preparation (People's Daily)
The Australian, the biggest-selling national newspaper in the country, has highly praised the efforts made by the Chinese government in preparing the upcoming Beijing Olympic Games. "We should all wish the People's Republic of China ...
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07/05/2008
Oasis man blames games for violent crime (Ferrago)
Chatting with UK music mag NME Oasis star Noel Gallagher has partially blamed video games for a rise in violent crime in the UK.
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07/06/2008
Women's teams honoured for GCC games success (Gulf Daily News)
THE Bahrain Olympic Committee (BOC) hosted a special ceremony in honour of the Bahraini women who achieved remarkable results in the first edition of the GCC Women's Sports Games held in Kuwait.
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07/06/2008
Before the Games Begin, He Has Moves to Make (New York Times)
For the Olympics, a choreographer who sifts among ideas East and West.
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07/05/2008
Wheelchair Games Heading To Omaha (KETV 7 Omaha)
The National Veterans Wheelchair Games are coming to Omaha this summer.
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