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The bus was supposed to drop me off at the volleyball stadium. That, at least, was the plan. I’m not going to assign blame - especially since there are indications pointing in my direction - but suffice to say there was no volleyball.
Instead, there was boxing. Now, I [...]

From Janny Hu.

So I’m leaving the basketball arena yesterday, and right there, across the street, is an American wearing a Warriors jersey.

OK, an ex-Warriors jersey, to be exact.

Matt Kaplan, 22, is from Lafayette and he’s on a pretty snazzy vacation in Beijing that’ll take him…<img [...]

By Petra Cahill, msnbc.com editor and reporter

As political rivals China and Chinese Taipei — the name Taiwan completes under in the Olympics – stepped up to the plate on Friday, the Olympic gods must have smiled down on the contentious game. After causing havoc Thursday, thunderous storms subsided, giving way to a hot, sunny, blue skies summer day. The players seemed to enjoy the [...]

By Titi Yu, NBC News

When Guo Jingjing and her diving partner Wu Minxia stepped on to the 3-meter diving board last Sunday, a jubilant audience watched with hushed anticipation. A breathless moment… then the two partners dove into the air with a perfect back dive to the thundering applause of their adoring fans.

AFP - [...]

Scientists at Norwestern University have demonstrated a new nano-printing technology by printing the Beijing Olympics emblem 15,000 times, each logo so small the whole print run fits inside one square centimeter. 2,500 of the images, made 20,000 90-nanometer dots, would fit on a grain of rice. The polymer pen lithography uses an array of millions [...]