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	APA All-Star Snubs By Ethen Lieser AsianWeek Staff Writer For the 73rd time, it was here again — when for one night, baseball was as sweet as cotton candy. It’s called the midsummer classic, where stars of the national pastime gather to play a meaningless, exhibition game. But how much longer will the All-Star Game continue to excite? At this rate, not much longer. A game, nonetheless, which always manages to fire up the nation. The game has been divested of its innocence this season. There have been plenty of allegations about players bulking up on steroids, destroying the integrity of the game. Now, fans are looking (or squinting) at Barry Bonds’ single-season home run record as if it were another Enron scandal. There have also been rumors of a labor strike that could once and for all drive fans away from ballparks. Fans forgave baseball in 1994, but don’t count on it again this season, Bud Selig... COMPLETE STORY...		Swami on the Legal Battlefield (Feature) All in a Day’s Work (in National News) Charter Amendment Proposes District Elections for School Board (in Bay Area News) Ultimate Diversions: Breath of Fire II (in Business) APA All-Star Snubs (in Sports) Universal Translations (in A&E) Emil Amok: Fame to the Rescue (in Opinion)

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Japan’s Eating Champion Does It Again 113-pound Kobayashi downs 50 dogs By Heather Harlan Special to AsianWeek It’s happened again. For the second year in a row, Takeru “The Tsunami” Kobayashi, Japan’s eating phenomenon, chomped his way past the competition and set a new record at the Nathan’s annual Fourth of July hot dog eating contest. Downing 50 1/2 wieners and buns in 12 minutes, Kobayashi bested his own previous world record by half a dog and bun. But amidst the victory, a controversy as thick as mustard left a bad taste in the mouths of some fellow competitors...

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