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...boom in Spain, Caro says, and now traffic is building on the U.K.'s kart tracks too. Hamilton's record-breaking season - he's won three of the 14 races so far, becoming the youngest-ever driver to lead the world championship - has left circuits reporting a "surge in demand," says Graham Smith, secretary of the Association of British Kart Clubs. In the race to become the next Hamilton, karting is "fundamental to any young driver," says Christian Horner, team principal at Formula One's Red Bull Racing team...
...more than three hours, incredulous at the slow-moving line and the fans that still had such faith in a perennial loser. Finally, I asked the man in front of me the question I’d been dying to ask: when have Celtics tickets been in such high demand?He was a grizzled working-class guy, worried about having dashed from work to “grab tickets and head back.” His response? Larry Bird’s rookie year—1980.Bird was drafted as a junior in 1978 and returned to Indiana State...
...possibly two more investigations against Olmert. If that happens, being the target of four police probes could prove too much, even for Olmert's prodigious chutzpah, forcing him to resign. He will be too busy fighting legal battles to provide the kind of steely-eyed helmsmanship that Israelis demand from a leader who must deal with the Palestinian conflict and regional enemies Syria and Hezballah...
...third largest consumer of luxury goods, accounting for 12% of global sales, according to a December 2004 Goldman Sachs report. If this trend continues, China could surpass the U.S. to become, along with Japan, the world's largest purchaser of luxury items by 2015. Chinese yuppies are driving the demand, buying everything from expensive watches to imported cars. And luxury purveyors are responding: Armani plans to open 24 stores in China...
President Bush joined in the Giuliani-led bashing of MoveOn on Thursday, saying the organization's ad criticizing Gen. Petraeus was "disgusting." But as MoveOn executive director Eli Pariser is quick to point out, when it comes to Iraq policy, substantially more Americans side with MoveOn's demand that a deadline be set to withdraw troops than support the general and the President...