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...years, Susi shared her space at the zoo with another African elephant, a few years her senior, named Alicia. When Alicia died in February 2008, the loss came as a blow, according to the animal-welfare organizations Libera and the Foundation for the Adoption, Sponsorship and Defense of Animals (FAADA). "She's living in 1,000 square meters of concrete, which are not proper conditions for an elephant," says Alejandra Garcia, spokesperson for the Free Susi campaign. "But as long as she had Alicia she was more or less O.K. Now, though, she's apathetic, her trunk hangs...
...symbologist Robert Langdon (Hanks) is taking a 5 a.m. water workout in the Harvard swimming pool when a papal emissary shows up to inform him that someone has kidnapped four prominent Cardinals, all in line to be the next Pope, and threatened to murder them and, that very night, blow up St. Peter's Square with a vial of antimatter stolen from a Geneva research lab. In Rome by sundown, Langdon finds adversaries in a stern Cardinal (Armin Mueller-Stahl) and the head of the Vatican's Swiss Guards (Stellan Skarsgard), and two allies in a passionate young Vatican priest...
...humiliating blow for Intel, which has played a key role in developing chip technology for over four decades, and can now claim a staggering 80.5% market share in microprocessors. But it represents vindication for Intel's semiconductor rival Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), which filed the original complaint in 2000. And it also underlines the power and authority of the Commission, which has now established itself as the world's most feared antitrust regulator...
...blow to a market that was one of the world's most dynamic in recent years. Offering businesses a dip into London's deep investor pool, but with a light regulatory burden, AIM had lured 1,700 companies from more than 30 countries at its peak in late 2007. That figure now stands at 1,500 and shrinking. Among firms valued at less than $7.5 million - almost 40% of all companies listed on AIM - "there's quite a strong feeling that if things aren't going to improve in the near future, they're minded to look at coming...
...says the Italians had "no reason not to do what they always do with illegal aliens - they expelled them." The upshot: nothing much is known about the five suspected suicide bomber volunteers beyond their nationalities. "That means they're still out there somewhere, presumably as ready to strike a blow for jihad as they were when they entered Italy," the French official says. (See pictures of Osama Bin Laden...