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...Volkswagen's main plant in Wolfsburg, Germany, Ulf Meinecke, 38, shoves his hands into his jacket pockets and says he can no longer afford annual vacations to Italy with his family. "We just go every other year," he says. "Everything is getting more expensive, and the euro was the blow that broke our necks...
...tallest peak in the country. In fact, at just 6,288 ft., it isn't even the tallest in the eastern U.S. (Mount Mitchell in North Carolina beats it by several hundred feet). But the weather here is some of the worst in the world. Storms blow up without warning. Every so often a hiker caught unawares by plunging temperatures, fierce winds and snow squalls dies of hypothermia...
...Housman claims he’s primed for the challenge this year, and after last Friday’s 33-point performance, you had better believe him. With Yale still in the title hunt, only a game behind Penn, the Crimson also knows it can deal a potentially crippling blow to the Bulldogs’ season on their home court, sweet revenge for past abuses. Yale is playing too well, though, and the anti-Harvard energy at the Lee is too great: the Bulldogs will pull away late...
...about 4 a.m. in Zagreb, Croatia when a tremendous noise woke Miran Pavic ’09 from his sleep. “The Croatian mafia just decided to blow up my car,” Pavic explains. The attack came in retaliation for articles published by Pavic’s father, Nino Pavic, which detailed the mob’s activities...
...lost it, 6-3. “I was trying to overcome nerves pretty much the whole match,” Valkin said. “When you’re a bit nervous, you expend a lot more energy.” Nonetheless, Valkin matched his opponent blow for blow for seven games. Up 4-3, Valkin seemed poised to break his opponent, but three questionable calls over the course of four points cost him the break and drew howls of anger from the crowd. At that point, Valkin says, he began to feel cramps coming...