Lakers 105, Celtics 97

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March 20, 2006

The Lakers' first two games of their road trip ended with missed contested 3-pointers by Bryant. The Lakers lost to New Jersey 92-89 Friday and to Cleveland 96-95 Sunday despite leading by as many as 18 against the Cavaliers.

This time, Bryant scored 16 fourth-quarter points -- including the Lakers' last 12 -- to make sure the game didn't come down to the closing seconds.

"When the game is on the line, they put the ball in my hands," Bryant said. "I've gotta do what I've gotta do, I don't care if it's 50 shots, 60 shots, five shots."

The Celtics trailed 56-40 at halftime, but chipped away at the lead in the third quarter and pulled within 82-74 to start the fourth.

Pierce cut the deficit to 99-94, but Bryant responded with a driving layup with 1:20 remaining to extend the Lakers' lead to 101-94. He then made two free throws with 49.6 seconds left to extend the lead.

"Kobe was the difference," Celtics forward Wally Szczerbiak said. "In the second half, we came back and we competed. But against a good team and a great player, we just didn't play well enough to win."

The Lakers double-teamed Pierce for much of the fourth quarter and held him to two points.

The Lakers' first two games of their road trip ended with missed contested 3-pointers by Bryant. The Lakers lost to New Jersey 92-89 Friday and to Cleveland 96-95 Sunday despite leading by as many as 18 against the Cavaliers.

This time, Bryant scored 16 fourth-quarter points -- including the Lakers' last 12 -- to make sure the game didn't come down to the closing seconds.

"When the game is on the line, they put the ball in my hands," Bryant said. "I've gotta do what I've gotta do, I don't care if it's 50 shots, 60 shots, five shots."

The Celtics trailed 56-40 at halftime, but chipped away at the lead in the third quarter and pulled within 82-74 to start the fourth.

Pierce cut the deficit to 99-94, but Bryant responded with a driving layup with 1:20 remaining to extend the Lakers' lead to 101-94. He then made two free throws with 49.6 seconds left to extend the lead.

"Kobe was the difference," Celtics forward Wally Szczerbiak said. "In the second half, we came back and we competed. But against a good team and a great player, we just didn't play well enough to win."

The Lakers double-teamed Pierce for much of the fourth quarter and held him to two points.

"We just threw everybody at (Pierce)," Odom said. "If you put two guys on him, you have a high percentage of stopping him."

Smush Parker scored 14 points and Kwame Brown had 11 points and nine rebounds for the Lakers.

After missing his first four shots, Bryant made six of his next eight attempts and scored 12 first-quarter points to help the Lakers jump out to a 32-26 lead.

Szczerbiak cut the deficit to 42-35 with a 3-pointer midway through the quarter, but the Lakers went on a 14-2 run to make it 56-37 on an Odom layup with 43.7 seconds remaining.

"When you're down by 19, it just puts too much pressure on your defense," Pierce said. "We needed to make consecutive shots and just couldn't sustain it."

Notes

Pierce rolled his right ankle early in the first period, but returned to the court 2 minutes later and promptly made a turnaround jump shot. ... The Celtics are the only team in the NBA to have an all-time winning record against the Lakers. ... Allen set career highs with four blocked shots, nine free-throw attempts and eight free throws made. ... The Lakers are 17-12 against Eastern Conference teams, 18-22 against Western Conference teams.

Source: Yahoo! Sports
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/recap...

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LA Lakers 105, Boston 97

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	1 2 3 4 Total LA Lakers 32 24 26 23 105 Final Boston 26 14 34 23 97

LA Lakers
Name	Min	FG	3Pt	FT	Off	Reb	Ast	TO	Stl	Blk	PF	Pts
L. Odom	41	6-10	3-5	2-2	2	9	4	7	0	0	4	17
B. Cook	15	3-6	0-0	0-0	0	4	1	0	1	0	4	6
K. Brown	35	5-7	0-0	1-2	4	9	5	0	0	0	4	11
S. Parker	35	6-11	2-5	0-0	0	5	5	1	1	0	3	14
K. Bryant	40	18-39	0-5	7-10	2	5	4	2	5	0	3	43
J. Jackson	4	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	3	1	0	0	0	0	0
D. George	18	1-3	0-1	0-0	0	3	1	1	3	0	2	2
L. Walton	26	3-9	1-2	2-2	4	6	4	1	1	1	2	9
S. Vujacic	10	1-1	1-1	0-0	0	1	2	0	0	0	2	3
A. Bynum	4	0-3	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
R. Turiaf	3	0-1	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
D. Green	DNP - Coach's Decision
A. McKie	DNP - Coach's Decision
C. Mihm	DNP - Coach's Decision
Totals	231	43-90	7-19	12-16	12	45	27	12	11	1	25	105
Percentages:		.478	.368	.750		Team Rebounds: 9

Boston
Name	Min	FG	3Pt	FT	Off	Reb	Ast	TO	Stl	Blk	PF	Pts
R. Gomes	30	4-9	0-0	0-0	1	4	1	0	0	0	1	8
P. Pierce	37	8-19	2-8	8-11	2	9	2	5	1	1	6	26
R. LaFrentz	22	2-5	0-2	3-4	1	10	3	1	1	0	2	7
D. West	38	5-14	1-3	2-2	0	2	7	3	1	0	2	13
W. Szczerbiak	39	6-14	2-6	1-1	0	3	2	2	1	0	0	15
O. Greene	11	1-1	0-0	0-0	1	3	1	0	0	0	0	2
T. Allen	29	5-11	0-2	8-9	2	2	3	3	2	4	4	18
G. Green	2	0-0	0-0	1-2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
K. Perkins	14	2-4	0-0	1-1	3	8	3	0	1	3	3	5
A. Jefferson	9	1-3	0-0	0-0	2	3	0	1	0	1	0	2
D. Dickau	DNP - Coach's Decision
D. Jones	DNP - Coach's Decision
M. Olowokandi	DNP - Coach's Decision
B. Scalabrine	DNP - Coach's Decision
Totals	231	34-80	5-21	24-30	12	44	22	15	7	9	18	97
Percentages:		.425	.238	.800		Team Rebounds: 5

Game Info

Technical Fouls: Phil Jackson Officials: Greg Willard, Kevin Fehr, Monty Mccutchen

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Sec: 321, Seats: 15-17

Made by Muslims

Indlieb Farazi
Monday 13 March 2006 1:28 PM GMT

Muslims learnt the world was round 500 years before Galileo.

A cup of coffee, windmills, carpets, soap and the fountain pen, what do they all have in common? Apparently they were all invented by Muslims.

Muslims have invented everything from surgical instruments to the camera, according to an exhibition touring Britain. One inventor featured is Ibn Hazm, an Arab astronomer the exhibition credits with discovering that the world was round 500 years before Galileo made his discovery.

The exhibition opened this month in Manchester and aims to uncover the lost history of Muslim science and invention.

The exhibition, 1001 Inventions: Discover the Muslim Heritage In Our World, now showing at the Manchester Museum of Science & Industry, features some of the best-kept secrets and scientific contributions made by ancient scholars on which much of Western civilisation and the world now rely.

Professor Salim Al-Hassani, chairman of the Foundation for Science, Technology and Civilisation (FSTC), which organised the exhibition, said: "The extent to which Muslims have contributed to Western civilisation is not generally well known. Yet these ancient scholars from the Islamic world gave us many of the everyday things we use such as coffee, soap and clocks.

"This exhibition shows that Muslims have always shared the heritage that provides a platform for developments that makes the Western world tick."

Flowering civilisation

In the West, the Dark Ages are usually seen as an interlude between two great flowering civilisations, in which little advancement of knowledge took place.

"This exhibition shows that Muslims have always shared the heritage that provides a platform for developments that makes the Western World tick"Professor Salim Al-Hassani, chairman, FSTCHowever, in this period Islamic scholars across southern Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Persia and Central Asia were busy preserving and building on the knowledge of the ancient world.

For example, the exhibition organisers say that records show that the coffee bean was first used to make a drink when the bean was exported from Ethiopia to Yemen where Sufis drank it to stay awake at night to pray on special occasions.

Much of the Islamic world began to regard coffee as an aid for devotion, allowing dervishes to stay awake for long hours dedicating their nights to divine remembrance.
By the late 15th century it had arrived in Makka, Saudi Arabia, then Turkey, and later arrived in Venice in 1645.

Inventions

The exhibition credits the invention of the first pin-hole camera to Ibn al-Haitham, a 10th-century Muslim mathematician, astronomer and physicist.

It also says that Islam's requirement for cleanliness and purity encouraged Arabs to develop the ancient Egyptians' use of soap, and create the recipe combining vegetable oils with sodium hydroxide that we still use today.

A 10th-century Muslim surgeon, known only as al-Zahrawi, is said to have designed surgical instruments, which are still in use.

And Ibn Nafis, a 13th-century Muslim medic, is said to have described the circulation of the blood 300 years before William Harvey discovered it.

Muslims doctors are also credited with inventing anaesthetics of opium and alcohol mixes and developing hollow needles to suck cataracts from eyes in a technique still used.
The windmill, often associated with the Dutch, is said to have been invented in 634 for a Persian caliph and used to grind corn and draw up water for irrigation.

Missing history

Examining a thousand years of missing history, the exhibition brings to life historical inventions and innovations made by some of the greatest Muslim minds.

"Open any school book in Britain and you will find little, if any, mention of what Muslims have achieved historically"Mohammed El Gomati,director, FSTCMohammed El Gomati, the director of FSTC, said: "The project started six years ago. The FSTC, a group made up of Muslims and non-Muslims alike, realised there was a need to travel around the country and educate and inform the public about Muslim contribution to the world."

The exhibition is designed to encourage and inspire British youth to pursue careers in science, engineering and technology. It helps to dispel negative perceptions of Muslims and provide positive role models to young British Muslims in particular.

El Gomati, a lecturer in physics and electronics at the University of York in England, said: "There is definitely an element of ignorance in the West towards the Arab Muslim world. Open any school book in Britain and you will find little, if any, mention of what Muslims have achieved historically.

"We have decided to readdress this imbalance."

The nationwide exhibition ends in June.

Source: al Jazeera
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/609785AC-6432-412A-AAA1-E97C5926F74B.htm