The United States Basketball team has shown great performance with two full scale outbursts, but has finally run into some competition in the World Basketball Championship.

Howard won the 2005 Rookie of the Year Award. The 2006 season proved even more exceptional for the slugger who, it was announced Monday, won the National League`s Most Valuable Player Award

Donald Rumsfeld will be the first American defense secretary to visit the headquarters of China`s strategic missile fleet. He invited the People`s Republic to play a bigger role in the economic and security affairs of the wider world.

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With Amare Stoudemire out of the lineup for near future, the Suns will have a tough time replicating last season?s record this year. However, Phoenix does have enough talent on its roster to remain competitive until Stoudemire returns. The players who will have to pick up the slack the most are newly acquired Kurt Thomas and Brian Grant.

Jerry Reynolds has been named the new Chief Operating Officer of Playtionics, a full service Media Firm based in Atlanta, GA. Playtionics is a diversified Media, Marketing, Creative, and Public Relations based in Atlanta, GA. Clients are leveraged and not limited to a wide spectrum of Industries from Auditing to Entertainment.

With her latest film, `North Country,` Charlize Theron portrays the true story of Josey Aimes, a single mother who works in the Minnesota local coal mines, trying to provide for her children.

The entertainment industry, specifically Hollywood, loves to go make money off of some of the dumbest sequels, because they know that fans will go see the films regardless of reviews. This is apparent in such movies as "Mission Impossible", whose third installment will be hitting box offices this summer.

The Florida Gators of the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida have done the unthinkable and for the first time in American sport history a college athletic organization has won the national title for both basketball and football, in the same year.

A commissioner for the US Federal Trade Commission demanded from Congress that his agency be given increased authority to deal with the prevalent problem of hidden spyware on the internet.

President George W. Bush directs the Departments of Energy and Justice to probe whether there has been cheating or manipulation of gasoline markets. Outgoing White House spokesman Scott McClellan said Monday that Mr. Bush planned to announce his request in a speech about energy Tuesday.

Jack O`Neill, founder of O`Neill, Inc., invented the first surfing wetsuit over 50 years ago. Recently 2Advanced Studios and O`Neill Inc. have decided on a joint venture to create an official website offering users a new design and completely dynamic experience.

Sealevel Systems, Inc. has released the first RoHS-compliant low profile PCI digital I/O adapter, the PIO-24.LPCI. This board is the first in a series of RoHS-compliant digital I/O product introductions. Sealevel has shown a great respect, concern, and has seemed to fully adopt this environmental initiative.

Some of the biggest business opportunities on the web have to do with either online gambling and online dating. Ynless you have billions of dollars to start competing with existing, successful, online gambling businesses, it seems that online dating is the way to go.

Mahmoud Abbas, the President of the Palestinians, is pushing for a referendum to put forth to the Palestinian people which will once and for all call for peace and recognition of the Israel.