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Jan 28, 2012

ARGENTINA Summer News, Jan 28, 2012


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Carlos Tevez to end Manchester City strike after losing hope of move
The Guardian
Milan said on Friday night they had abandoned their pursuit of theArgentinian until the summer and Tevez intends to report back for duty at City despite still nursing a huge grievance against Roberto Mancini. That much became clear in an extraordinary ...
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The Guardian
Ginobili named to 2012 Argentinian Olympic squad
Project Spurs
Manu is still making his way back to the court after fracturing his hand earlier this season, but some Spurs fans may be a tad leery with him playing this summer. Recall he played with Argentina this past summer, took time off after the FIBA Americas ...
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TRAVEL: Argentina becoming a hot favourite with travellers
Liverpool Daily Post
As controversial battles waged in the Falkland Islands and South Georgia, relations between Thatcher's Britain and Argentina's ruling military government were at an all-time low. Today, thankfully, an invasion of a much more positive sort is taking ...
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Hockey: Welsh wonder Sarah Thomas looks forward to Champions Trophy
WalesOnline
WELSH hockey star Sarah Thomas is relishing the start of Team GB's Champions Trophy campaign in Argentina on Saturday. With the clock ticking down to thesummer's Olympics in London the team face their last truly elite-level test in Argentinaover the ...
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Fusion edges Chivas USA 1-0 in friendly
Ventura County Star
By Joe Curley Juan Pablo Angel has scored more than 40 goals in the top flight of four different countries — Colombia, Argentina, England and the United States. Milton Blanco led the Premier Development League in points last summer for the Fresno ...
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Brit skier Felicity Aston sets Antarctic record, becoming 1st woman to cross ...
Washington Post
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — British adventurer Felicity Aston completed her crossing of Antarctica on Monday, becoming the first woman to ski across the icy continent alone. She did it in 59 days, pulling two sledges for 1084 miles (1744 kilometers ...
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Geology PhD wins award for research
StarPhoenix
"I found that I would rather travel and spend time in the field than indoors," he said. Upon returning to Argentina, Desjardins enrolled in Gabriela Mangano's class at the University of Tucuman. Mangano's passion for geology inspired him to continue on ...
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Soybean bear grinds to a halt on poor weather
Futures Magazine
Prices have fallen by more than $3.50 per bushel since late summer. Not only would there be more beans available to Asian buyers than ever before, but South American farmers planted early for the second consecutive season hoping to capture more Asian...
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Official: Lille sign Mauro Cetto on six-month loan
Goal.com
The 29-year-old only left Toulouse for Palermo last summer but has featured only seven times for the Sicilians during the first half of the season. "It is true that my adaptation in Italy was difficult," the player told his new club's official website.
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Mica Mabragana Takes First FEI Win of 2012 for Hampton Green Farm
DressageDaily
Thanks to the patience and skills of Dr. John Steele and HGF farrier Mike Phillips, Cuatrero returned to work with Mica last summer. On Friday, in his first class in four years and first time ever at FEI-level, the pair placed in the PSG with a green ...
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Making Boca Juniors favourite again?
Buenos Aires Herald
Coach Julio Falcioni has said that his first priority is the Libertadores Cup, the closing championship comes second and the Copa Argentina third. Of course, there is no reason why his supposedly well-trained professionals should not be able to go all ...
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Woman sets record for solo Antarctic ski journey
USA TODAY
By MICHAEL WARREN, AP BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – British adventurer Felicity Aston became the first woman to ski alone across Antarctica on Monday, hauling two sledges around crevasses and over mountains into endless headwinds, past the South Pole and ...
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USA TODAY
World in Pictures: A look at London's past games in run-up to Olympics 2012
Birmingham Mail
THE world is getting ready for Olympics 2012 in London - the third time the capital has hosted the summer games. London has held the event more times than any other city, beating the two occasions it's been staged in Athens, Los Angeles and Paris.
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It's Champion Olympic build-up, says Macleod
Cambridge News
Hannah Macleod believes Great Britain's women's hockey team can lay the foundations for Olympic glory at the Champions Trophy in Argentina. It will be the British squad's final major tournament before the London Games and former St Ives player Macleod ...
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Manchester City's stand for principles
The National
Carlos Tevez 's approach to the fallout with Manchester City has backfired on the Argentine. Michael Regan / Getty Images There was a time, before player power entered the sporting vocabulary, when it merely appeared a description of a physically ...
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The National
Gallery: Contador, Boonen roll out for Tour de San Luis
Cyclingnews.com
Some of the biggest stars in cycling will be presented for the 6th Tour de San Luis inArgentina today, with Saxo Bank's Alberto Contador, Tom Boonen and Levi Leipheimer of Omega Pharma-Quickstep and Vincenzo Nibali (Liquigas-Cannondale) amongst the...
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Horacio Agulla set to leave Leicester Tigers
This is Leicestershire
"I had a long discussion with him last week and, at this point, we are not going to offer him a new contract because he will be away with Argentina for significant amounts oftime," said Cockerill. "He has been very good for us and is a really good ...
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Georgie Twigg refuses to be complacent about place in Team GB hockey team
This is Lincolnshire
It was not boiling hot, but it was like a British summer time, which was ideal for us as that is what we will be playing in when the Olympics come round. It was nice to beat the USA with a good performance. We beat them by some good scorelines, ...
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New Zealand: Too Orderly, Tidy and Tame?
Smithsonian (blog)
She hopped aboard a cargo ship that delivered her to Argentina, where a continent in the height of summer lay at her wheels. She crossed Patagonia and the Andes, and went north into Bolivia, to Lake Titicaca. Then she boxed up her bike—always a ...
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Smithsonian (blog)
Bolton target Juan Iturbe wants to leave Porto on loan, claims father
Goal.com
The 18-year-old has been out of favour at the Estadio do Dragao, making just five appearances since completing a £3.3 million deal from Cerro Porteno in the summer. Iturbe's situation has reportedly caught the eye of Bolton Wanderers and Racing Club,...
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Volatility paces long-term weather outlook
Agriculture.com
"This time, if we go into the same type of summer we did last year, we will take a much bigger beating this year." How big will that "beating" be? Taylor says last year's corn yield expectations for Iowa were around the 160-bushel-per-acre level and ...
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Agriculture.com
Messi scores 3 goals as Barcelona beats Malaga 4-1
SI.com
But once Messi found the net for just the second time away from home this season, it had little trouble making Malaga look like the team it was before a ?60 million ($77.5 million) overhaul this summer. Andres Iniesta played Adriano wide to the left ...
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What's Troy Polamalu Got To Do With P&G's Pantene Olympic Campaign?
The Big Lead
Coughlin, who has won 11 Olympic medals and is in training for the 2012 SummerGames in London, will be among 11 women athletes – and lead spokeswoman in the US .- in Pantene's marketing push. The campaign, themed, “Beautiful is the New Healthy,” marks ...
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Icy pole quenches thirst for adventure
The West Australian
Launched in May last year, this is its maiden voyage to the frozen white continent - a route it will travel regularly during the summer cruising season from November to March. Our journey started in Ushuaia on Argentina'ssouthern tip, about 1000km ...
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The West Australian
Neymar dreams of ending Brazil's hunger for gold at London 2012
Evening Standard
Claiming the only international football title Brazil have not won has become a national obsession for the five-time World Cup winners, especially asArgentina took gold in 2004 and 2008. Such enthusiasm is stark in contrast to Europe, and Britain in ...
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CHILE Summer News, Jan 28, 2012


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Chilean students socialize in English summer camp
Santiago Times
High School students attending a weeklong summer camp to learn English rehearse a skit to promote recycling on Friday, Jan. 20, 2012. (Photo by Jason Suder/ The Santiago Times) “The best part is that you meet a lot of people and make a lot friends,”...
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Wigan swoop for Beausejour
The Press Association
Wigan boss Roberto Martinez told his club's website: "Jean is a player we have been tracking for a long time since he made a huge impression on us with his role for Chilein the World Cup." Beausejour joined Birmingham in the summer of 2010 from ...
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Santiago a Mil: the last day and the best performances
I Love Chile News
Summer time in Santiago and the XIX version of Santiago a Mil came to its end yesterday. The Chilean festival offered people a lot of activities to avoid boredom in the capital. After three weeks of artistic, theatrical, cinema and many other events ...
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I Love Chile News
Chilean dictatorship curriculum change leads to resignation
Santiago Times
(Photo by Jason Suder/The Santiago Times) Dr. Alejandro Goic resigned in a letter to Education Minister Harald Beyer, citing “deep and irreconcilable differences with the curricular content of the history course as defined by the Ministry of Education.
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Chilean winger set to return to English Premier League
Santiago Times
The Chilean has swapped soccer clubs as often as college kids swap apartments. His home is now in the English Premier League and he hopes to get comfortable. Insummer 2011, Beausejour was angling for a move from Birmingham City Football Club to Wigan ...
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Sneak peek at Canada's next innovation hub
CBC.ca
Last week I wrote about a tantalizing offer from the Chilean government: entrepreneurs with innovative ideas can apply to be part of Start Up Chile, a program aimed at attracting early-stage entrepreneurs to start their businesses in Chile.
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CBC.ca
Our man in Antarctica
Financial Times
The summertime climate round the peninsula is bracing but bearable, and that's where all the wildlife interest is. There's nothing in the forbidding interior except lichen – though a skua, most gluttonous of seabirds, once made it to the Pole, ...
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Financial Times
X Games Go Global, Announce 9 Finalists For Future Events
SB Nation Denver
The winners will be announced in April and join these three host cities (though Aspen could be out by that time). Whistler hosted many skiing events during the 2010 Winter Olympics. Mumich hosted the Summer Olympics in 1972 while Rio will host the ...
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Rellenos Redux: Gluten-Free Blue Corn Meal Crepe Chile Rellenos
BlogHer (blog)
I got a good dose of photography and lighting basics and plenty of hands-on time with mentoring from some of the food blogosphere's greats. Online research and tutorials have helped too. I hardly consider myself an expert in these matters, ...
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Tour Of Chile's Orchards, Vineyards & Farms Builds Bridge To North America's ...
PerishableNews (press release)
Organized by the Chilean Fresh Fruit Association, with the support of ProChile, the US and Canadian produce industry leaders and first time visitors were introduced toChile's impressive landscape, various growing regions, vibrant fresh fruit producers ...
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Professor's film beats out Scorsese, revisits past
Daily Eastern News
The book, a romantic story set to the backdrop of political and entertainment history, was published in 1971 and written by Enrique Lafourcade and remains Chile'sbestselling book of all time. "And because of its fame it's now read in all of the ...
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Castro qualifies for 2012 Olympics in London
DU Clarion
By Alex Proietti Pioneer junior Simona Castro made history on her 23rd birthday by being the first Chilean woman to qualify for this summer's Olympic games for gymnastics. Castro qualified for the 2012 games in London this year after finishing 55th in ...
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Holocaust memorial honours individuals from all countries who risked their lives
Globe and Mail
Elsewhere are also unexpected names from countries such as China orChile. Some of those foreigners were diplomats from neutral nations, for example Turkey or El Salvador, who ignored their superiors' orders and issued visas to Jewish refugees.
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Globe and Mail
Entel aiming for 70% of postpa ...
Business News Americas
To entice users to become smartphone adopters, Entel is planning to have in March (when the southern hemisphere summer in Chile ends) four different smartphones - the Motorola Razr, the Google Nexus, the Nokia Lumia 800 and the Samsung Galaxy Note.
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US Men's National Team Set For First Friendly Against Panama
PaddockTalk
• Jurgen Klinsmann has collected back-to-back victories for the first time since becoming head coach last summer, following the 3-2 win against Slovenia on Nov. 15, 2011, in Ljubljana. • Four players earned their first cap this past Saturday: AJ ...
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From Soup to Nuts (Hold the Nuts): A hardly comprehensive look at Austin's ...
Austin Chronicle
27, 2012 It's finally winter in Austin, when we can relax and forget the brutalsummer we just survived and can briefly sublimate the growing dread of the heat-blasted months ahead of us. It's a time for putting on fuzzy socks, snuggling down into the ...
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Austin Chronicle
Protecting an Arctic treasure from the oil companies
Washington Post
In the summer of 1998 I went to Prudhoe Bay, a major oil field on the North Slope of Alaska, prepared to listen carefully to oil companies eager to expand into the wilderness regions of the western Arctic. My priority was protection for Teshekpuk Lake, ...
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Neruda Productions announces new season
Waterloo Record
For 11 years, the Chilean-born Cisterna has put her heart into developing the non-profit organization Neruda Productions, bringing in musical groups from all parts of the globe, particularly Latin America. Neruda has also held kite and cultural ...
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Road to the Olympic Trials with Ethan Brown
Xtri.com
by Ethan Brown I kicked off my 2012 quest to get to Olympic Trials this past weekend at an ITU points race down in Chile. Vina del Mar is a tourist town right on the coast where I have raced once before in 2010. The South American Continental Cup scene ...
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Zusi's goal leads US past Panama
USA TODAY
Using mostly backups while the regulars remained with their European clubs and playing nearly the entire second half a man short, the Americans evened their record at 4-4-1 under Jurgen Klinsmann, who replaced Bob Bradley as coach last summer.
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USA TODAY
Munoz will be special guest of Stuttgart Kiwanis Club
Stuttgart Daily Leader
Munoz and her husband, Dave, were married in the summer of 2001 with two wedding ceremonies — one in South Dakota and one in Chile for her mother's family. They are the proud parents of Sydney Raquel, who was born Oct. 18, 2008. When not spendingtime ...
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Of sand, salt and slush: Costly bill to battle Mother Nature
Kitsap Sun
The county uses rock salt from the Midwest and a pink salt from Chile. LARRY STEAGALL/KITSAP SUN Kitsap County Public Works laborer Pat Alexander (left) and truck driver Joe Patti repair tire chains Tuesday. A snow plow goes through a set every 24 ...
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Sun Valley Ski Hall of Fame honors 10 more
Idaho Mountain Express and Guide
During summer he bike raced, later competing in triathlons, winning his age group at Ironman Hawaii and the World Championships five times. French turned to cross-country skiing before skate-skiing existed. He has won in his age group at the American ...
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Top Ten: Bargains You May Not've Thought Of
Football365.com
Despite Alexis Sanchez having already proved his talent by the summer of 2010, everyone waited a year before deciding to enter a bidding war. In the end Barcelona got their man, but they could have signed Sanchez for half the price only 12 months ...
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Sleepless in Santiago: Top Six Destinations to Beat the Heat
Santiago Times
So if you have some free time, or even just a weekend, the best idea is to get out of the city and explore Chile's immense and diverse natural beauty. Chileans are lucky enough to be surrounded by the Pacific ocean on one side, and the Andes, ...
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