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64 countries attended this event, originally planned for 2003, at Kurashiki in Japan. Kurashiki in Okayama Prefecture is famous for old buildings containing museums on a willow-lined canal. The congress hotel was a converted ivy-covered cotton mill. The final placings were: 1. Korea 8/8, 2. Taiwan 7/8, 3. China 6/8, 4. France (on SOSOS), 5. Japan, 6. Canada, 7. Hong Kong, 8. USA, 9. Luxembourg, 10. Czechia 5/8, 20. UK 4/8 (Alex Rix), 36. Ireland 3/8 (Noel Mitchell). Bernard Helmstetter of France's result is particularly noteworthy; if the last game to finish had been lost by Sweden then France would have been third. The Asada Fighting Spirit Prize went to the star of the show 9-year old Shiba Shaw from India, who is a former street urchin taken in by a Japanese orphanage.|

Nicolas Sarkozy has made some funny that he would like to extend his presidency over the EU to 2009, overshadowing the presidency of Czechia and Sweden in H1 and H2 of 2009, respectively, and erasing pretty much all rules and agreements of the EU at the same moment. The gummi politicians are making fun out of this story.|

desulfurization scrubbers by energy utilites. Despite this decrease, Czechia still produces by 50% more SO2 and NOx per capita than the average EU-15 country: 22 kg and 33 kg, respectively. Nevertheless, because we have seen that emissions that are higher by an order of magnitude don't really kill most life, we also know that the current values are not disastrous in any sense.|

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