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http://www.vancouver2010.com/paralympic-games/ "PARALYMPIC GAMES: VANCOUVER 2010 WINTER PARALYMPICS" "With Glowing Hearts March 12-21, 2010

Today, Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili luge athlete died while practicing on the Vancouver Olympic's "Whistler Sliding Centre". For those that have seen the video of the horrible crash, the first thing that stands out it the proximity of a series of steel I-beam supports a mere 2 to 3 feet away from the core of the track: One has to wonder just how such a design - for a facility meant for unprotected humans to fly down it at almost a hundred miles an hour - could have been built. What could have been considered to be a higher priority...

BELLINGHAM, Wash. — SNIPPET: "The goal, officials say, is to be ready for any emergency that might be magnified by having the Olympics and a few hundred thousand visitors next door, whether a terrorist attack, a truck overturned on Interstate 5 near the border or disruptions from the big winter storms that often pound the region."

ST. JOHN'S, Nfld. (CP) -- An American conservation group is calling for an international boycott of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver-Whistler because of an annual seal hunt that takes place on Canada's East Coast. The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society based in Malibu, Calif., said the games, scheduled for February and March, will coincide with the time the seal hunt begins. "These dates fall at the exact time that the notoriously cruel, largest marine mammal slaughter in the world takes place on the East Coast of Canada," the society said in a statement found on their Web site. "The Olympics...