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...TOUR DE FRANCE 13% Percentage of French citizens who say they are "very interested" in the Tour de France. Its popularity has plummeted following widespread doping scandals, including the removal of Tour leader Michael Rasmussen from this year's race over missed drug tests 71% Percentage of French citizens who think the sport's reputation has been irreparably damaged by the scandals...
Research suggests that military children fare worse when a soldier-parent is deployed for a combat tour. According to a new study published in the Aug. 1 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, when an enlisted parent left home, the rates of confirmed child abuse and neglect rose more than 40%, at the hands of the parent who stayed behind. "These findings were consistent regardless of parents' age, rank or ethnic background," says Deborah Gibbs, the study's lead author, "indicating that deployments are difficult for all kinds of families...
...Nearly 10% of those parents neglected or abused their children on more than one day. The number of times a parent was deployed, however, whether once or twice, did not significantly affect the rate of maltreatment - researchers speculate that by the time of a soldier's second tour of duty, the homebound parent has developed at least few coping strategies...
...hearing on U.S.-China trade, where labor leaders and corporate chiefs aired their grievances about China's unfair trade practices - from its unwillingness to enforce a minimum wage to its negligent enforcement of intellectual property law. James Hoffa, President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, fresh from his recent tour of Chinese cities, told the committee that China's "first priority is economic progress. It second priority is people." Scott Paul, executive director of the Alliance for American Manufacturing, blasted China for breaking the rules of the WTO, behavior he called tantamount to "cheating." "China must be held accountable...
...Much like the pubescent years we were enduring, summer concerts were more about the journey than the destination. Headliners, therefore, were irrelevant. No sooner had the Warped Tour been posted than we donned rubber bracelets and piled into the hatchback of whichever friend had most recently learned to drive. Once we got there, we were a lot more concerned with the contents of our illicit “water” bottles than we were with the musical styling of Blink-182. By this token, I regularly made the trek to see some of the worst college-rock bills...