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                    [Title] => The 10,000-hour rule
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Over the last two weeks, we devoted our column to the so-called debate between “nature and nurture” in sports using the experience of people in other fields like music to highlight certain points.

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Last week’s column, “Nature vs. Nurture: Athletes’ Genes” had us jumping into the age-old debate whether vastly superior athletic performance is caused by genetics (genetic freaks, as they are called) or rendered by simply normal people who overcame their biological limits through sheer force of will and obsessive training.

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Every so often, the phrase, “it’s a sport in which Filipinos can excel”.

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The US Department of Agriculture announced yesterday it will spend millions of dollars to help farmers and ranchers improve pastures in five Midwestern states to provide food for the nation's struggling honeybees.

[DatePublished] => 2014-02-26 07:02:13 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1479914 [AuthorName] => M.I. Johnson [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 664267 [Title] => Novartis drug vs diabetic macular edema gets FDA okay [Summary] =>

The Philippine Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted research-based Swiss health care company Novartis a new indication for ranibizumab to treat vision loss due to diabetic macular edema (DME), one of the most feared diabetes complications that can cause disabling vision loss.

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PERTH (AP) -- A Qantas flight struck turbulence over Malaysia and suddenly lost altitude, leaving seven people with minor injuries, the airline said Monday.

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