| Knicks' Marbury to miss at least two more games with bad ankle
Marbury went after practice Monday to see specialist Dr. William Hamilton, who found inflammation around a chronically fractured bone spur. Hamilton recommended Marbury wear a walking boot for three days before being evaluated with an MRI exam. Marbury will miss games for the Knicks against Washington on Tuesday and at New Jersey on Wednesday, but told reporters at practice he would have surgery if it was recommended. "If the doctor says I have bone spurs in my ankle and he says I need surgery, I'm going to get it," Marbury said. "I'm going to get it taken care of. I'm not going to wait or hesitate because that's my career." Marbury didn't practice Saturday and missed Sunday's 89-65 victory over Detroit because his ankle was sore. He needed surgery to remove bone spurs from the same ankle after he was hurt in 2001, though the procedure was done over the summer.
The world in 2008: a year and an era
This is the third year in succession openDemocracy has invited our contributors to look ahead to the year to come. The previous collections are: ▪ What does 2006 have in store? - parts one and two ▪ 2007: reflections and predictions The coming year has the potential to be a revolutionary one that forces European publics into a radical re-perception of the world. The Beijing Olympics will mark the shift from a Europe-centred world to an Asia-centred one. The hosting of this major spectacle is but one indication of China's arrival as a global superpower. A worldwide economic slowdown - perhaps recession - will accelerate the shift and make awareness of it unavoidable. And as liberal democracy continues to lose its monopoly on political discourse, the world's China-focus will increase interest in liberal democracy's competitors: Beijing's one-party capitalism or the Kremlin's "sovereign democracy".
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Green now has eight goals this season, ranking second on the team to LW Alex Ovechkin. He is all of a sudden among the top two defenders in Washington and is showing why he belongs there. He remains a solid low-end Fantasy option at this time.
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Companies to Share Eco-Friendly Patents
Multinational companies including International Business Machines Corp., Sony Corp., Pitney Bowes Inc. and Nokia Corp. will unveil today what they call a patent-sharing plan for companies to donate intellectual property that improves the environment. The project, dubbed the "Eco-Patent Commons," builds on the experience of the open-source software movement in which programmers around the world freely share their computer programs, said David Kappos, IBM's assistant general counsel for patent law, who helped design the system. He said that "the advantage of using this commons approach is efficiency, scale and visibility." The commons will be administered by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, a Geneva-based group that includes some 200 of the world's biggest companies.
ITV programmes named and shamed
The Jiggy Bank competition featured a contestant chosen to ride a giant mechanical pig. Each week the pig visited a difference location. But each week the production team drew up a shortlist of 20-30 entrants who lived within an hour of the location, meaning entrants from other areas of the country had no chance of winning. The production team then routinely used "editorial judgment" to select the winning contestant. A final shortlist of five was then drawn up and all were visited by a researcher who then selected the eventual winner. The terms and the conditions of the competition said that the winner was chosen at random. The review also found that the production team used "editorial and geographic discretion" to select winners for the Grab The Ads section of the show.
Left-handed stormtroopers fight for ecommerce site
An ecommerce website specialising in products for the left-handed has enlisted Star Wars stormtroopers as part of its sales arsenal. The business was first established in 1968 as a shop in Soho and set up an ecommerce site in 2000. Around 13 per cent of the population is left-handed. By last year the site - www.anythingleft-handed.co.uk - was responsible for 80 per cent of the business' turnover, so when the lease came to an end this summer the company became a purely online operation. The company's director Keith Milsom explained: "We used to print a 28-page mail-order catalogue which was the main part of the business, but the cost of printing and mailing took quite a big part of the profit generated. With the internet it's so much easier, if we have a new product we can put it up on the site the same day.
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