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Criticism Controversially, the NBA Finals are sometimes[3] regarded by league officials and U.S. media as a "World Championship," despite the fact that only teams from the US compete except for one team from Canada. This issue has become notable since USA national teams have not won official worldwide basketball competitions like the 2004 Olympics and the 2002 and 2006 FIBA World Championships, and have even finished as low as sixth place. Although some players from opponent international teams actually play in the NBA, teams with no NBA players -such as Greece and Italy- have won against NBA-based USA teams. From 1992 to 1996, the first four years of NBA players participating in USA Basketball at worldwide tournaments, these national teams did seem to dominate any opponent.

World biggest umbrella 300 inches in diameter

AT's claim to measure aptitude

SAT and four other entrance exams1, claims that the test measures not just how capably individuals answer analogy and geometry questions, but how capably they will perform in the academic world.

Psychoanalysis and surrealism seemed to influence each other to investigate and express the human subconscious world.

The Big Umbrella, twice the radius of the biggest men’s umbrella on the market, was designed to shield up to 16 people from the rain. It was a cheerful and simply idyllic structure, but did 16 people want to crowd together to avoid getting wet? Does bad weather affect people differently in different parts of the world? To find out, I took my big umbrella on the road between 2003-2004, visiting Paris, London, Dresden, Copenhagen, New York and Martinique.

The History of Cabernet Sauvignon is actually less than six hundred years old which makes it a relative newcomer to the world of wine grapes.

Many teens don't realize the psychological or physical dangers behind reed-like bodies. Instead they uphold super-thin images as their ideal. "The media has a tremendous influence--impacting on girls to be thin," says Elaine Yudkovitz, a New York psychotherapist and specialist in eating disorders. The statistics are alarming: About one in 100 adolescent girls suffers from anorexia. The results can be deadly. Roughly 10 percent of anorexics die of medical complications from lack of food, or from suicide.

For years researchers have tied eating disorders to severe psychological problems. Now scientists have found a new link in the equation: brain chemistry.

have deficient amounts of serotonin, a brain chemical associated with moods and emotions, circulating in their brains.