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Locating about a quarter of the 2012 venues outside of London should also help stoke Britons' interest. Within the sprawling, densely populated capital, though, organizers "need to carefully plan how they're going to control, handle and manage the crowds to make sure everyone's safe and not gridlocked," says Ed Hula, editor of Around the Rings, a publication on the Olympics. (See 10 things to do in London...
There's pressure on sterling from all sides. The currency fell below $1.50 for the first time in 10 months on Monday after an opinion poll published in a British newspaper suggested that none of the parties contesting the country's upcoming general election would emerge with overall control. A so-called hung parliament, investors deduced, would not likely result in a clear plan to tackle the country's dreadful public finances. (See pictures of the financial crisis in London...
...Conservatives have squandered their double-digit lead in recent weeks. In fact, in a YouGov poll published in Britain's Sunday Times on Feb. 28, the Tories' margin over the governing Labour Party had diminished to just two percentage points, raising the specter of no party winning absolute control of Parliament. The problem: Britain has had little practice at coalition government in recent years. Its last attempt - more than 30 years ago - has done nothing to help sell the idea now. A hung Parliament could see a second election called in a matter of months. And all the while, Britain...
Illness from contaminated food, ranging from minor stomachaches and queasiness to life-threatening E. coli infections, are a serious public-health threat in the U.S., resulting in 5,000 deaths and 325,000 hospitalizations each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). When tallied up, the consequences of foodborne illness - including doctor visits, medication, lost work days and pain and suffering - cost the U.S. an estimated $152 billion annually. That figure was reported on Wednesday in a new study by the Produce Safety Project, an initiative of the Pew Charitable Trust...
...been marred by scandals over the illegal wiretapping of his opponents by the state intelligence agency, human-rights abuses by the army and links of his political allies to paramilitary groups. Critics of Uribismo say it has brought stability at the expense of human rights, ceding too much control to the military...