November 8th, 2007 at 12:01 am
Now this one’s a strange story …
Little 10 year old Huang Li was watched by her father as she saw in the chilly southern China river, Xiang River, for three hours on October 2nd with her hands and feet bound! Her father believes the task will help his daughter achieve her dream of swimming across the English channel.
Huang Li managed to swim more than a mile in the river in early October. She traveled with the current as she swam moving like a dolphin through the water.
“Her swimming skills are perfect and she insisted on doing this,” Huang Daosheng said in a telephone interview. The girl, who lives in the city of Zhangjiajie in Hunan province, got the idea after seeing something similar on a local television program, he said.
With the Beijing Olympics less than a year away, sports is grabbing greater attention in an already sports-crazed country. Huang Li’s swim is at least the second time in recent months that a child athlete has drawn media attention.
Huang swam in a skirted swimsuit with her hands tied with string and her feet bound with a strip of cloth. Her face had a blue tinge due to the cold.
“It’s not dangerous because, first, her swimming skills are really good and second, I was swimming with her, staying close to her,” the father said. “I had her when I was 35, so she is my heart. I would never play around with her life.”
The father, a teacher who enjoys swimming, coaches his daughter and said the family does not have enough money for her to have a better coach. The girl started the sport when she was six and her father said her goal is to one day swim across the English Channel.
“She asks me every day, ‘Can I achieve this? Is the English Channel wide? Are the waves really big?’” Huang Daosheng said.
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October 9th, 2007 at 12:01 am
Psychiatrist Ajit Trikha was looking like the busiest doctor in the world for a while. As it turns out, he wasn’t doing quite as much work as the invoices that he sent to Medicare made it seem.
You see, he finally came clean and plead guilty this past June to defrauding Medicare and Medicaid of approximately 1.85 million dollars. He’d sent in invoices claiming that he worked more than 24 hours a day on 76 different occasions.
One invoice claimed that he’d worked 40 hours in one day. Another said that he’d treated 83 patients in only 2 1/2 hours on another day. Another claim that he’d made stated that he’d treated patients 1,267 times in Belleville, Ill where his office was located, while he was traveling in Europe.
Unless he can stop time or teleport himself there’s no way any of these claims could have been true. If you ask me the doctor wasn’t so wise at all!
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September 27th, 2007 at 10:34 pm
Planning your winter vacation? Perhaps you want to visit Hawaii? Why not do something a little different this time round?
Most of the time when people go on vacation they end up staying in one room hotel or motel rooms. How boring is that? Yes I know, if you’re having a good vacation you aren’t in the room all that much, but still wouldn’t it be nicer to stay in one of the beautiful Poipu vacation rentals or the Waipouli Beach Resort? Personally, I know I’d much prefer that to a one room cramped hotel room any day.
If you want to stay in beautiful vacation rental homes and condos you should visit the RE/MAX Kauai website. They specialize in rentals on the beautiful island of Kauai.
One of the great things about staying on a vacation rental is that you can stay with your family or friends because most of the vacation homes have two or three bedrooms. Some have several bedrooms. Share the cost of the rental with your friends. Maybe your vacation will even end up being less costly than if you’d simply rented a hotel room.
Visit the RE/MAX website and take a look at the Waipouli, Poipu and Kauai vacation rentals. You can browse through all of the listings and book vacation accommodations while online.
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