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Lead Stories Two teams of Canadian en
Lead Stories Two teams of Canadian en
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Two teams of Canadian engineers are completing their low-budget rockets and have begun seeking volunteer astronauts for a 2003 launch date to go 62 miles into space to win the St. Louis-based X Prize competition (which pays (U. S. ) $10 million). The rockets cost around $3 million to $5 million each to build. [Edmonton Journal, 11-12-02]
Inga Kosak won the first World Extreme Ironing Championship in Munich in September, beating 80 contestants (from 10 countries), who are judged on the degree of difficulty they can create for themselves in order to iron. One ironed while bouncing on a trampoline, another while surfboarding on a river, and another hanging upside down from a tree. The activity’s founder, Phil Shaw, says he does it because ironing itself is particularly boring. [Boston Globe, 12-13-02]
Alberta (Canada) judge Shelagh Creagh ruled in October that prison inmate Shane Arthur Wilson could not be punished for carrying around a homemade plastic knife since Wilson said the knife was only for defending himself against prison gangs, because it is reported that escaping from prison is not a crime in that country. [Washington Post, 01-154)3]
Absolutely the Least Substantial Reasorr for a Knife Fight: Police in Mansfield Township and Hackettstown, N. J., charged Emmanuel Nieves, 23, with aggravated assault on Nov. 13 after he allegedly slashed the face of his friend Erik Saporito, 21, as the two men fought after arguing over which one had more hair. [Express-Times, 01-054)3] [br] Who has founded the activity of extreme ironing?
选项
A、A Canadian engineer.
B、Inga Kosak.
C、Shelagh Creagh.
D、Phil Shaw.
答案
D
解析
根据提问,在相关的新闻故事中,迅速查找到该项活动创始人The activity’s founder, Phil Shaw。
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