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Good Sports: SILVER FOR RAM
October 2016 -
This is how Rajeev Ram of Indiana, ranked 25th in the world in doubles, got to play in the Rio Olympics with four-time Olympic gold medalist Venus Williams, and reach the finals for a silver medal.
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Good Sports: KABADDI WORLD CUP
October 2016 -
The 8th Kabaddi World Cup will be held in Ahmedabad. India has won all seven previous World Cups, but Pakistan has been runner-up three years in a row. Poland and other countries like kabaddi.
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Good Sports: SPELL-GOLF CHAMP
October 2016 -
National Spelling Bee co-champion Jairam Hathwar revealed that his favorite golfer was Jordan Spieth, so Spieth invited the 13-year-old to a tournament. Here is the cute story of the new sport of spell-golf.
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Quota of Quotes
October 2016 -
Quotes from an acid attack survivor in a beauty pageant, a man with a pagdi, ex-governor of the Reserve Bank of India, 1st woman Leader of Govt in Canada's House of Commons, a chef, a comedian.
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DID THAT REALLY HAPPEN?
October 2016 -
How much do you know about current events in India and the U.S.? Try this short quiz!
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FUN TIME: PLEASE DON’T GIVE ME A PARTICIPATION TROPHY
October 2016 -
Should kids receive trophies for participation, even if they didn't win? A football player named James Harrison says No, and this funny essay tells why the author agrees.
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COMIC PRODUCER
October 2016 -
New York-based Broadway producer Vivek Tiwary has 44 Tony nominations and 25 Tony Awards. Now his best-selling graphic novel The Fifth Beatle is being adapted into a mini-series.
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FREDDIE MERCURY’S ‘HECTIC’ BOARDING SCHOOL DAYS
October 2016 -
Fans of Freddie Mercury remembered the Queen rocker who died a quarter-century ago. An asteroid was named for him. Newly released photos show him as Farrokh Bulsara, in a Zanzibar Parsi family.
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Good Sports: YOUNG OLYMPIAN
September 2016 -
“What did you do this summer?” Few students can give an answer as impressive as Kanak Jha’s: “I competed in Rio.” He is the youngest male ever to compete in table tennis at the Olympics.
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Good Sports:GIRL SCOUT’S FAR-REACHING PROJECT
September 2016 -
Devika Chhipa Kumar, a Grade 12 student in Texas, raised money to install a sanitary pad manufacturing machine in Rajasthan, for her Girl Scout project. It will benefit women in five villages.
