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...This kid can smash it. She?s seeded 26th in Queens, but she reached the 3rd round in Wimbledon. Her path was made a little easier when defending champion Svetlana Kuznetsova got chopped down on the big stage by Ekaterina Bychkova. This is a tough town to defend your crown...
...turn to China as their next great hope. The U.S. tobacco industry's overseas sales grew almost 20 percent last year, and a nation of 350 million puffers adding five million more each year and few restrictions on advertising would make the People's Republic the jewel in the crown of global cigarette marketing plans. In keeping with its World Trade Organization promises, China has been slowly opening its domestic market to foreign brands, lowering tariffs from 65% to 25% in 2004, and streamlining the rules for sales and distribution. British American Tobacco has tried (so far unsuccessfully...
...del.icio.us, and you'll find e-commerce websites like England's Teddington Cheese and Catalonia's Delinostrum, both of which have been tagged by online customers as part of their own personal folksonomy and then shared with the rest of the online world. No one is yet prepared to crown tagging as a successful business in itself. More likely, tagging will boost online advertising, and search in particular, to a dominant position in consumer retail and commerce. And social networking and the culture of tagging is not without its critics. Eddie Cheng, president of British online yellow pages directory Yell.com...
...Bryna at a Bnei Akiva (a Zionist youth group) meeting in New York City, married her and made aliyah (literally, the ascent) to Israel. Bryna too was reared to Zionism, in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn. Born there in 1950, she went to religious school in her early years. Bryna says her photographer father longed to move to Israel, but his mother, who had fled to a better life in the U.S. from Russia, wouldn't accept it. "They were secular, and when he said he wanted to move to Israel in 1953, my grandmother said, 'You're crazy...
DIED. KING FAHD BIN ABDUL AZIZ AL SAUD, 84, monarch who kept Saudi Arabia stable during two decades of regional and domestic crises; after several strokes and diabetes left him largely incapacitated for the past decade; in Riyadh. Fahd's rule, which now passes to his half-brother Crown Prince Abdullah, was marked by an effort to balance his country's traditionalist religious faith with the imperative to build a modern state. A fan of the U.S., he transformed the once primitive desert kingdom into a gleaming bastion of skyscrapers and expressways and oversaw a massive expansion of Islam...