Word: england
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...banks want money, most of it will have to be loaned into the financial system. The Bank of England will further buttress the credit system by buying corporate loans and commercial paper...
...unassuming village of Sipson, England, all roads lead to the King William IV pub - a late 15th century tavern known for its cask ale and the ceaseless chatter of good-humored barflies. On Thursday afternoon, however, the lager and the laughter stopped flowing. Forty villagers watched the television mounted in the bar silently as Geoff Hoon, the nation's Transport Secretary, announced that he had approved plans for a third runway at London's Heathrow Airport. For Sipson, which sits on the airport's northern perimeter, it's nothing short of annihilation: the village's 700 homes and businesses must...
...European copyright in 2012 under the current law," says Mark Owen, intellectual-property partner at the London-based law firm Harbottle & Lewis. "The differing laws are causing tensions, particularly on the Internet, where it's unclear how they should be enforced." (See pictures of the Beatles in Liverpool, England...
...fantastic," says Dr. Beth Malizia, lead author of the study, published in the Jan. 15 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, and a former clinical fellow in obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive biology at Harvard Medical School. "When we got these results we were quite pleased...[IVF] does restore in the infertile population the same live birth rates that they have in their own age group."(See TIME's Top 10 Medical Breakthroughs...
...learned several things. There's the five-row rule. When a professor in England, Ed Galea, analyzed the seating charts of more than 100 plane crashes and interviewed 1,900 survivors and 155 cabin-crew members, he discovered that survivors usually move an average of five rows before they can get off a burning aircraft. That's the cutoff. In his view - and he's done a lot of statistical analysis - the people who are most likely to survive a plane crash are people who are sitting right next to the exit row or one row away. Not a particular...