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Cricket: `When two sides are so close it's a question of finding someone who can grasp the moment and put his foot down on the pedal' Fourth Test Countdown It is tea-time on New Year's Eve at the England team's hotel in Cape Town. Our regular columnists, Nasser Hussain and Mike Atherton, are joined by two former master batsmen, Graeme Pollock and Barry Richards. Scyld Berry chairs the discussion.
Berry: How do we see the series going from here? Pollock: It's been quite a dramatic change since England were well beaten in the first Test. The only concern is if they have to field again first here. Hussain: I think we look too far into the future. We'll just be looking at the first session and
Publication: The Sunday Telegraph London
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Back on his feet - the man they said would never walk again Jim Martin's heart stopped beating as he lay at the side of a Cape Town road, where a speeding people carrier left him for dead.
Jim Martin's heart stopped beating as he lay at the side of a Cape Town road, where a speeding people carrier left him for dead. He had been hit while trying to help wife Jackie, who was lying injured after being ploughed down by a taxi as the couple made their way back to their hotel on the first
Publication: Herald Express (Torquay UK)
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cape of couture; Tanya Farber visits Cape Town Fashion Week and finds that body mass and ego are still top of the catwalk.(Life)
On the same day that I was involved in a horrific BMI expose, Cape Town Fashion Week had its opening show. To the unannointed, BMI stands for Body Mass Index. It's a way of measuring if you're too fat for your height or - as a friend once euphemistically put it - too short for your weight. After I
Publication: The Sunday Independent (South Africa)
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Towns go online with swap shop ; Scarborough joins Biddeford and Saco in offering an Internet version of Cape Elizabeth's on-site shop
GISELLE GOODMAN Staff Writer Portland Press Herald (Maine) 04-22-2004 Towns go online with swap shop ; Scarborough joins Biddeford and Saco in offering an Internet version of Cape Elizabeth's on-site shop Byline: GISELLE GOODMAN Staff Writer Edition: Final Section: Your Neighbors-South SCARBOROUGH
Publication: Portland Press Herald (Maine)
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Dance in the townships of Cape Town.(Philip Boyd, director of Dance for All has brought dance to the impoverished children of Cape Town)
Twelve children stand in bare feet holding onto rickety chairs, wearing hand-me-down leotards or torn underclothes. They have no regulation dance clothes or satin shoes, yet with straight backs and looks of pride on their faces, they execute ballet exercises to crackling, taped music. These dozen
Publication: Dance Magazine
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DUTCH TREAT A LAKESIDE HOUSE IN NEW HAMPSHIRE STIRS MEMORIES OF CAPE TOWN.
THE DUTCH DOOR OF CAROL AND JOHN THOMPSON'S NEW HAMPSHIRE HOUSE IS A SYMBOL OF WELCOME. THE TRADITIONAL DESIGN, IN WHICH THE TOP HALF CAN OPEN WHILE THE BOTTOM HALF REMAINS CLOSED, IS BASED ON THE DOOR OF THE DUTCH-STYLE FARMHOUSE NEAR CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA, WHERE CAROL GREW UP. THE THOMPSONS
Publication: The Boston Globe
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A river runs through Cape town's future Truro aims to preserve charm with harbor plan
TRURO -- On Dec. 12, 1992, a raging northeast storm sent waves crashing through the dunes at Ballston Beach here on the outer reaches of Cape Cod, blasting a breach in the dune structure and inundating the upper Pamet River valley with sea water. The Pamet, whose source is less than 100 yards
Publication: The Boston Globe
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YOU'LL DIG IT MAINE BEACH TOWN HAS BOTH OLD-TIME FEEL AND AN ELEGANT SIDE
YORK, MAINE DISTANCE FROM BOSTON: 70 miles POPULATION: 13,306 for all of York, which also includes York Village, York Beach, York Harbor, and Cape Neddick. WEBSITES: gatewaytomaine.org, yorkmaine.org. ODD FACT: In the early 1600s, Native Americans in the area that is now York Beach shot at and
Publication: The Boston Globe
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