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General Writing. Send in your best work – poems, short stories, essays. (Feel free to do it throughout the year, but this gives you a deadline.)
Deadline: Oct. 10.

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  • Click "create content" and create an ENTRY
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OC#4: Should this man be allowed to compete in the Olympics?

Submitted by ggevalt on January 10, 2008 - 16:10.

Admirable Spirit, but Rules Are Rules, by George Vescey, NYTimes

An athlete named Oscar Pistorius of South Africa is almost sure to be denied in his bid to run in the 2008 Summer Games with two artificial lower legs. Pistorius’s problem is that his prosthetic devices are far beyond the contour and function of so-called normal legs.

Pistorius, 21, who was born without the fibula in his lower legs and with other defects in his feet, uses carbon-fiber devices, known as Cheetahs, shaped like the letter J. ... Read more of NYTimes story

Online Challenge #4: Should this athlete be allowed to compete in the 2008 Olympics in China? Check out the story, the related graphics, then come back here, and comment or create a blog entry as to whether you think he should be allowed to compete in the Olympics or should only compete in the paraOlympics. If you create a new blog entry, put OC4 and newsblog in the box marked "Keywords".

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