12 Sep, 2008
Posted by: admin In: News| Technology
Tech and the Olympics are a recipe for controversy. Before double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius (right) was finally approved to compete in the Olympics (he failed to qualify, barely), naysayers claimed his carbon-fiber Cheetah blade prostheses gave him an advantage over non-cyborg competitors. And Speedo’s LZR suit has been decried for rendering meaningless any world records [...]
By NBC News’ Shahid Qazi and Carol Grisanti
BABAKOT, Pakistan – In a tangle of bushes and trees outside a remote village in southwest Pakistan, six close male relatives of three teenage girls dug a 4-foot wide by 6-foot deep ditch, on a sweltering night in mid-July, and allegedly buried the girls alive.
Their crime: they dared to defy [...]
12 Sep, 2008
Posted by: admin In: Around Beijing| News
By Adrienne Mong, NBC News Producer
BEIJING – Two weeks after the end of the Summer Olympics, the residents of Beijing have yet to wake up to their much-anticipated sports hangover.
In fact, if the vast crowds an NBC News crew and I witnessed on the Olympic Green this week are any indication, they are still [...]
