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...night has peaked early, but there are other delights for other nations - a silver for Markus Rogan in the 100-m backstroke prompts a delighted Austrian to cry, "First swimming medal for Austria since 1912!" "I'd keep quiet about that if I were you, mate," comes the inevitable Australian riposte...
...money ($1.44 each). In its first week in Europe alone, iTunes sold 800,000 tracks. Napster and the Sony Connect store also have competing music sites, and WalMart and EasyGroup, parent company of EasyJet, are looking to launch their music-download services. Coke execs are debuting their site in Austria and promoting it heavily on the sides of cans, but they must be wishing for the days when Pepsi was all they had to worry about. --By Chris Taylor...
...some wins that didn't show up in their medals tally, because many of the athletes swimming for other countries are products of the American collegiate system. Three of the four South African men trained at the University of Arizona. Markus Rogan, who won two backstroke silvers to become Austria's first swimming medalist since 1912, was a Stanford team captain last season. Duje Draganja, who captured Croatia's first ever swimming medal with a silver in the 50-m freestyle, trains at U.C. Berkeley. And Coventry swims at Alabama's Auburn University. "I got to a point at home...
...Fertilisation and Embryology Authority granted experts at Newcastle's Centre for Life a license - the first of its kind - to carry out therapeutic cloning using human embryos. The scientists hope to use stem cells from the embryos to develop treatments for diseases, including diabetes and Alzheimer's. Papal Sanction AUSTRIA A court in St. Poelten, near Vienna, gave a former student at a Catholic seminary in the city a six-month suspended jail sentence for possessing child pornography. A day earlier, a papal envoy investigating wider allegations of sexual impropriety shut down the college. In the Frame ROMANIA Prosecutors indicted...
...explain the ?/ss rule, he confessed: "Oh dear, I'm really confused." Most Germans are just as bewildered about how their written language is changing - which is why a grassroots revolt is trying to save the old ways. Back in 1996, the governments of Germany, Switzerland and Austria agreed on far-reaching reforms meant to simplify the spelling and grammar of their complex common tongue. Educators had argued that the old rules were confusing and contradictory. But the revision - 12,000 new or altered spellings and many grammar changes, which have been taught in most classrooms since 1998 - turned...