Archive for December, 2009
Promoter calls Pacquiao-Mayweather fight dead
LAS VEGAS – Promoter Bob Arum declared the megafight between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. dead Thursday, though efforts continued to find a compromise to a dispute over blood testing.
Myrr may lower cholestrol: study
ScienceDaily – Laboratory experiments suggest that the resin of certain trees of the Middle East, known commonly as the “myrrh” of the Christmas story, may have cholesterol-lowering properties.
‘Hudson should be out of ‘Mandela film’
South African actors want to stop Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson from playing Winnie Madikizela-Mandela in a new film on the ex-wife of the nation’s first black president, reports said Monday. The Creative Workers Union of South Africa said using foreign actors to tell the country’s stories undermined efforts to develop the national film industry. “It can’t [...]
Stevie Wonder’s debut as UN peace envoy heats up
The singer-songwriter was in the middle of his acceptance speech as a prestigious Messenger of Peace and advocate for the world’s estimated 650 million people with disabilities when a fire alarm went off in the basement conference room at UN headquarters.
