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VOL 1 | EDITION № 02 | 03rd - 16th May 2018
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Korean 08 nuclear site collapses
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study by Chinese geologists shows the mountain above North Korea’s main nuclear test site has collapsed under the stress of the explosions, rendering it unsafe for further testing and necessitating monitoring for any leaking radiation.
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Simmons enters great
NBA playoff rivalry
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en Simmons and Joel Embiid are about to find out what the NBA playoffs are really about. After dispatching the Miami Heat in five games in the first round in their first career postseason appearance, the Philadelphia 76ers’ youngsters are taking on the Boston Celtics in the Eastern Conference semi-finals. All those banners hanging from the Garden rafters. All that history
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on the parquet floor. All that bad blood between the two cities. A civic rivalry that dates back to the Revolutionary War era came of age on the basketball court with Wilt Chamberlain leading the Philadelphia Warriors, and later the 76ers, against Bill Russell’s Celtics in the 1960s. Larry Bird and Julius Erving picked it up in the 1980s. Celtics forward Marcus Morris, a Philadelphia native, grew up
watching the Allen Iverson-led 76ers that went to the NBA Finals in 2001 but lost to Paul Pierce and Antoine Walker’s Celtics in the Eastern Conference finals the following year. He’s not expecting any favours from his hometown crowd. “I’m expecting the same treatment as far as them not even caring that I’m from Philadelphia,” Morris said a day after the Celtics advanced ...cont. on page 31 >>
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