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Instead, it refers to the NCAA (National -Collegiate Athletic Association) men's basketball tournament, whose "madness" emanates from an abundance of David-slaying-Goliath -upsets, obscure players-turned-heroes and the most gambled on American sporting event next to the Super Bowl.


This year's tournament (which begins -Tuesday) promises to be as mad as any in recent memory - for reasons that have more to do with coaches' and players' off-court activities than with the games themselves.


Syracuse University, the 2003 champions Cheap Special Field Air Force 1 UK , -voluntarily decided not to participate this year in an ingratiating attempt to avoid significant NCAA sanctions for academic fraud. (Last week the NCAA saw through this transparent attempt and hit the school with major penalties.)


The University of North Carolina, a perennial power and five-time champions, will compete in the tournament only one month after the death of Dean Smith, its legendary coach. Coincidentally, the Tar Heels are currently the subject of an NCAA investigation into Syracuse-like misdeeds. Will this be the last tournament appearance for Tar Heels coach and Smith protégé Roy Williams?


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Coach John Calipari has led three schools to the final four, but two of those trips were later -invalidated when rules violations were -uncovered. Would a perfect record vindicate the career of Calipari, the coach college hoops fans most love to hate?


The last team to go undefeated and win a championship was the 1975-76 Indiana Hoosiers, coached by Bobby Knight.


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Sinohydro Corp Ltd now has its first China-educated Angolan graduates working on construction sites in their home country and elsewhere. Provided to China Daily

Often criticized in the Western media for their role in Africa, Chinese companies have begun making changes to improve their image on the continent, increasingly creating jobs for local residents and offering educational opportunities to young Africans.


Sinohydro Corp Ltd Cheap Air Force 1 White Low UK , the international arm of the Power Construction Corp of China, is now seeing its first China-educated Angolan graduates working at different construction sites in their home country and abroad.


The Chinese company has been paying the airfares, tuition fees and living allowances of 19 Angolans studying water resources and hydropower engineering at Wuhan University in Central China's Hubei province over the past four years.


Half of them will begin work as assistant engineers at Angola's $100 million water supply project started last year for five of the nine districts in the nation's capital, Luanda. When completed, the 27-month project will provide drinking water to more than 1 million people.


"These projects are vital to the improvement of local people's lives. Therefore we are warmly welcomed by locals Cheap Air Force 1 White UK ," says Zeng Xingliang, chairman of Sinohydro Corp Ltd.


Like Sinohydro, other Chinese civil engineering and infrastructure companies, such as China Gezhouba Group Co Ltd, China Communications Construction Co Cheap Air Force 1 Off White UK , China State Construction Engineering Corp and China Road and Bridge Corp, have been dominant players in Africa over the past decade or more.


"As companies from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, India and Spain try to increase their market share in Africa's vast infrastructure market, we have to develop this dynamic market Cheap Air Force 1 Mid UK , not only driven by economic motivation but also by concentrating on how we can help and what we can offer to the locals," Zeng says.


The other Sinohydro graduates from Angola will be assigned to new residential housing projects in Luanda and to its engineering, procurement and construction project in Uganda. A $1.69 billion contract for the Karuma hydropower project was signed with the Ministry of Energy and Mines of Uganda last month.


Located 270 kilometers from Kampala in the northwest of the country, construction work will include the dam, waterways Cheap Air Force 1 Low Womens UK , an underground powerhouse and an electricity output system. Construction on what will be the largest hydropower project in East Africa will take five years.


Sinohydro is also providing funding and scholarships to six primary schools and five high schools in the district where Sasuma Dam was built in Kenya. The Chinese company is also providing computers, sport equipment, teaching materials and books to schools close to Bui hydroelectric power station in northern Ghana, which was completed in June.


Zeng says foreign aid alone is not enough to boost African countries' economic development. Modern technology is the key to solving many problems. China is also transferring this to African countries.


"However, Chinese construction companies are not good at launching public relations campaigns Cheap Air Force 1 Low Mens UK ," says Wei Ming, vice-chairman of Sinohydro's workers' union.


"Our business network has almost covered the whole continent. The reason why Chinese companies are here is because they have joined the global economy. The term 'new colonial power' frequently used by Western media just shows how interest groups in developed markets loathe China breaking the economic monopoly held by Western powers for centuries."


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