INVERNESS, Scotland (AP) -A host of the world's leading players will flock to the Scottish Open this week to test their links game on the recently opened Castle Stuart course in preparation for the British Open.
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Some baseball superstitions are accepted as cold, hard truth. But in the world of physics, the most accepted verities are subject to experimentation.
Read More »Cleaner Water Worldwide But Still Out of Reach for Millions
Clean water and decent sanitation. Those of us who live in developed countries probably don’t give these things a second thought. But for more than 800 million people around the globe, safe drinking water is a distant luxury
Read More »Record Wool Bale Yields World-Class Suits
In the 11 years since Loro Piana introduced its World Wool Record Challenge Cup competition aimed at rewarding merino sheep breeders who cultivate the world’s finest wools, the Italian fabric and clothing maker has procured rare wools measuring as fine as 10.9 microns, about 10 times finer than human hair.
Read More »Britain dominates world rankings
Britain occupies the top three spots in the world rankings for the first time in their 25-year history after Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland rose to third following his triumph at the U.S. Open.
Read More »DIY U: Pippa Buchanan’s Do-It-Yourself Master’s Degree
In this installment of DIY U, we dip into the world of Creative Commons-licensed open courseware and meet Pippa Buchanan, a DIY education rock star who built her education from just one blog post. She currently works for the Peer 2 Peer University , one of the most exciting and active experiments in online open education.
Read More »Super pairing set for Open
PGT: The U.S. Open is using the top of the world ranking for one of its star groups next week at Congressional. Luke Donald, Lee Westwood and Martin Kaymer will play together the first two rounds
Read More »Microbe Outbreak Panics Europe
By Marian Turner of Nature magazine Munich Confronted with what has become one of the world's most severe outbreaks of Escherichia coli, physicians and scientists in Germany say that the country's fractured health-management system has failed to handle the crisis properly.
Read More »Human Ancestors in Eurasia Earlier than Thought
By Matt Kaplan of Nature magazine Archaeologists have long thought that Homo erectus, humanity's first ancestor to spread around the world, evolved in Africa before dispersing throughout Europe and Asia. [More]
Read More »Hunger Crisis Worsens, Food System Broken: Oxfam
By David Brough LONDON (Reuters) - Food prices could double in the next 20 years and demand will soar as the world struggles to raise output via a failing system, international charity Oxfam said Tuesday, warning of worsening global hunger. [More]
Read More »Donald shoots 64, takes early lead at Wentworth
WENTWORTH, England (AP) -Luke Donald started his bid to become the No. 1 player in the world in style Thursday, overcoming wet and windy conditions to shoot a 7-under 64 and open up a two-stroke clubhouse lead in the first round of the BMW PGA Championship.
Read More »Donald insists he’s world’s best
PGT: He trails Lee Westwood by the slightest of margins for No.
Read More »Shipwreck Champagnes on the Auction Block
Two of the oldest and rarest bottles of wine in the world will be sold on June 3 at Alandica Culture and Congress Center in Finland’s
Read More »Poulter beats Donald in World Match Play final
Ian Poulter beat Luke Donald 2 and 1 in the World Match Play Championship on Sunday, denying his fellow Englishman's bid to gain the No.
Read More »Woods to fall out of top 10 in world ranking
Tiger Woods will fall out of the top 10 in the world ranking next week, ending an amazing streak of being top 10 in the world for 14 consecutive years.
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