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...agreed to buy British mortgage lender Abbey National for approximately €13.4 billion, creating Europe's fourth-largest bank in terms of market capitalization. "This is a unique opportunity to enter a very interesting market, which will add diversification, solidity and stability to our future results," Santander chairman Emilio Botín proclaimed. So has the predicted round of consolidation begun at last? Er, not really. "This is not the beginning of cross-border banking mergers in the euro zone," says Francesco Giavazzi, an economist at Milan's Bocconi University. If anything, Giavazzi says, Santander's move in Britain demonstrates...
...Called To Account Emilio Botín, chairman of Spain 's biggest bank, Santander Central Hispano, was ordered to stand trial for misappropriation of the bank's funds. Both Botín and the bank deny the charges...
...from Mattel comes with a toy cell phone that can send instant messages to the doll and receive replies. Of course, no toy show would be complete without a gaggle of robots. One of the coolest is the remote-controlled Robosapien ($100, available this summer), a 14-in.-tall bot from WowWee that can walk, dance, yawn, stretch, pick up an object and throw it and even do karate...
...drafting boards. Among the new inventions currently in circulation that could improve your well-being: the LifeShirt, a vest that monitors cardiac, pulmonary and respiratory activity as well as posture; the M2A capsule, a pill that when ingested reports on the functioning of your intestines; a nurse bot named Pearl that will take your vital signs and retrieve basic items; and the Health Dashboard, inspired by the dashboard in your car, which displays everything from environmental metrics like the pollen index and flu trends to personal data like blood pressure, cholesterol levels, exercise patterns and drug compliance...
...only questionable thing Britney has on Avril are her recently exposed femme-bot-bullet-boobs we saw in Goldmember. Now those could really hurt somebody! But, Avril does have a plethora of backup skater boys from the band to help bust a Britney chop. Who’s got Brit’s back? A little sister on Nickelodeon, some hair extensions and some old love letters from Justin aren’t enough for this match! I think Avril has the feisty fierce factor to finish this fight...