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...country's Feb. 7 presidential election, former Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych defeated sitting Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko by 3.5 percentage points. Though the vote received high marks from international election monitors, Tymoshenko refused to concede and signaled that she may ask for a recount. Tymoshenko may be hoping for a repeat of the Orange Revolution that followed the 2004 presidential election; that uprising ousted Yanukovych after he was accused of electoral fraud. Any election appeals must be lodged by Feb. 17, when Kiev will declare the results official...
When I visited his kitchen, Coudreaut made an exquisite endive and poached-pear salad with dried cherries and mustard-seed dressing. Say he wanted to put that salad on the menu. Among his first steps would be to go to the produce experts at McDonald's and ask about endive. He imagined the answer he would get: "Well, Dan, you're gonna have to get somebody to grow it. And that's not hard to do, but it's gonna take three years." (See 10 myths about dieting...
...credit crunch wasn't as hard on Goldman Sachs as it was on some other companies. Why then did it still ask for money under that first set of bailouts in 2008? -Mulkah Ade, London We brought nine big banks into Treasury and asked them to all take capital [voluntarily]. That made it easier for many other banks to do so. In a crisis, we have what some people term the tallest-midget syndrome. Bankers don't want to be perceived as being weak, so they say, "I'm healthy, I'm strong, I don't need it" - right...
When I was in Haiti covering the aftermath of the Jan. 12 monster earthquake, friends from around the world e-mailed or called to ask what it was like. Was the damage as extensive as it seemed on TV? How were the survivors coping? The question I was asked most of all: What are they doing for food? Many friends didn't believe my answer: "They're eating cookies...
...What is life? / Ask Andrew Berry / why we can’t marry / a spore...