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A mile away from Taylor Plantation is a bustling intersection with supermarkets, a filling station and shopping plaza. Yet even closer are a crabbing dock, walking trails and wooded buffers. With its contrasting allures of retail spots and outdoor haunts, the North Charleston neighborhood is drawing looks from home shoppers. .
Sony selling Euro HQ
A few unreturned serves from both sides later, and the genial Baer was bordering on trash-talk. "You're supposed to hit the ball," he quipped. Given the Brown Box's lack of any sort of scoring functionality, no winner was declared. However, in an unannounced post-match presentation, a representative from Guinness World Records took the stage to plug the company's upcoming game-focused edition and to present Baer with a special award acknowledging his position as the inventor of the first game console. Baer graciously received the award, as well as the accompanying standing ovation, before brushing aside the admiration. "We're done. You can leave," he said, prompting a volley of laughter. "Back to work. Back to work…" .
The man who makes the tennis world nervous
Davydenko denies any wrongdoing, but the episode exposed a world apart from the glitz and glamour of big-time tennis, in which vast reservoirs of international cash move on obscure matches. The biggest events on the tennis calendar are the four Grand Slam tournaments. Roughly $30 million was wagered on the Australian Open final in January -- much of it while the match was in progress. The Slams also account for most of the championship points that are awarded on the Tour. (Novak Djokovic received 1,100 points for his win Down Under.) But the life blood of professional tennis is the 65 tournaments the ATP hosts each year. These far-flung events give unsung players a chance to move up the rankings ladder. But because the early rounds are usually played away from the cameras, they have become prime entry points for a gambler who wishes to insinuate himself.
Steinburg: 'We shall never surrender' (comment)
Is prior military service mandatory to be the president of the United States? Not necessarily. But it is a barometer for measuring character under fire. Robert Charles Weaver, my mother's older brother, was in his early 20s when he served in the Pacific during World War II. He was assigned to the Signal Corps under the command of Gen. Douglas MacArthur until MacArthur's evacuation from the Philippines in February 1942. Before Bataan's fall to the Japanese on April 9, my uncle was evacuated to Corregidor, where he would serve under the command of Lt. Gen. Jonathan Wainwright. Uncle Robert worked in an underground fortress, tapping out messages for help to MacArthur's military command in Australia, advising him of the plight of the 11,000 who remained bunkered down in the tunnels of Corregidor.
U.S.: Al Qaeda video shows armed boys in training
In Baghdad on Wednesday, roadside bombings in south-central Iraq killed seven people and wounded nine others, Iraq's Interior Ministry said. A roadside bomb targeting police killed four people and wounded nine others in the south-central Iraqi provincial capital of Diwaniya on Wednesday morning, an Interior Ministry official told CNN. The city is the provincial seat of the largely Shiite Qadisiya province. Police were transporting prisoners at the time of the attack. The four killed, two women, a child and a man, were civilian passers-by. Four civilians, three detainees, and two police officers were wounded. A roadside bomb exploded midmorning in central Baghdad's Andalus Square, killing three civilians, according to the ministry. In eastern Baghdad, a third roadside bomb targeted a U.S.
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